The imaginary entities that make science
In this thesis, I investigate the role unobservables play in scientific explanations, the naturalness of explanations, and the fertility (or developmental potential) of theories. Realist accounts (in particular, the causal-mechanistic account) require unobservables to be real for them to fulfil an e...
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University of Leeds
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491819 |