Understanding, Truth, and Epistemic Goals

被引：10
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作者：
Khalifa, Kareem [1 ]
机构：
[1] Middlebury Coll, Dept Philosophy, Middlebury, VT 05753 USA
来源：
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | 2020年 / 87卷 / 05期
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D O I：
10.1086/710545
中图分类号：
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要：
Several argue that truth cannot be science's sole epistemic goal, for it would fail to do justice to several scientific practices that advance understanding. I challenge these arguments but only after making a small concession: science's sole epistemic goal is not truth as such; rather, its goal is finding true answers to relevant questions. Using examples from the natural and social sciences, I then show that scientific understanding's epistemically valuable features are either true answers to relevant questions or a means thereof.
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页码：944 / 956
页数：13
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