Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Puzzle of Getting at the Truth About the World
Most of us think that we're trying to get at some sort of accurate representation, or accurate picture of the world. And yet we do this somehow by deliberately and pervasively distorting our models or our theories in various ways. So could you, could you sort have explained that puzzle a bit? Sure. A, so i think the main puzzle is, as you sayd i think, sort of intuitively, that science is either aiming at truth, or at least most of our philosophical accounts of the epistemic aims of science tend to build in some sort of truth required. To know something, you can only know something if it's true. An understanding and explanation are
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