The success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any sc...ientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive--the ones which in fact latched on to the actual regularities in nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had been... misconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality, I hold the exact opposite: important philosophical problems concerning language have been misconstrued as relating to the content of science and the nature of the world. This is not at all new, but is the traditional nominalist line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, about ...what is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »