6 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
13745 | Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim] |
13746 | Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |