Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies.

Recent epistemology of modality has seen a growing trend towards metaphysics-first approaches. Contrastingly, this paper offers a more philosophically modest account of justifying modal claims, focusing on the practices of scientific modal inferences. Two ways of making such inferences are identifie...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 5/6; pp. 13823 - 13844
Autores principales: Hirvonen, Ilmari, Koskinen, Rami, Pättiniemi, Ilkka
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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