Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7551610 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 2017 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

- Duhemian good sense is an agent realiabilist epistemic virtue.
- Good sense directs and justifies theory choice for Duhem.
- Reliabilism helping avoid skepticism is compared with good sense helping make theories that approach natural classification.
- A good reliabilist story about scientific practice could get us out of the Problem of Induction.
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