The Tension between the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives and Epistemic Instrumentalism.
In this paper, I develop a critical assessment of epistemic instrumentalism as advocated by Kyle Stanford (2006). Epistemic instrumentalism is based on the claim that the criterion for the reliability of any theory is the absence of what Stanford calls 'unconceived alternatives'. This means that the...
| Published in: | Problems / Problemos Vol. 102; pp. 50 - 59 |
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Vilnius University
2022
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