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'After Finitude', 'The Rationality of Science' and 'Nonexistent Objects'
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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought
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Since Kant we think we can only access 'correlations' between thinking and being [Meillassoux]
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The Copernican Revolution decentres the Earth, but also decentres thinking from reality [Meillassoux]
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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought
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In Kant the thing-in-itself is unknowable, but for us it has become unthinkable [Meillassoux]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
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For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith]
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We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith]
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The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism
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Positivists hold that theoretical terms change, but observation terms don't [Newton-Smith]
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Critics attack positivist division between theory and observation [Newton-Smith]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do [Meillassoux]
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