Navigating Massimi’s Perspectival Garden with Inferential Forking Paths

IF 0.7 2区哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/02698595.2023.2191168

Daian Bica

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ABSTRACT In this review article, I situate Michela Massimi’s 2022 Perspectival Realism book in the broader state of the art of the contemporary philosophy of science by examining critically its contribution to the perspectival realism debate. Setting up a new agenda of philosophical problems for the perspectival realist, Massimi’s book is the most comprehensive assessment of perspectival realism since the publication of Giere’s 2006 Scientific Perspectivism (the starting point of the debate). The author carries out a scrupulous analysis of the historical, epistemological, and metaphysical foundations of perspectival realism—while she engages critically with the existing literature, she does so by giving a generous homage to the previous contributions to the state of the art (the works of Giere, Morrison, van Fraassen and others). However, I raise a batterie of questions about Massimi’s (perspectival) commitments, to bring into question the reach and the ambitions of her global project, specifically the rising tension between her modest epistemological beliefs in a plurality of culturally and historically situated perspectives and her ambitious metaphysical commitments towards a primitivist view about laws of nature.

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在这篇评论文章中，我通过批判性地考察其对透视现实主义辩论的贡献，将Michela Massimi的2022透视现实主义书置于当代科学哲学的更广泛的艺术状态中。马西米的书为透视现实主义提出了新的哲学问题议程，是自Giere 2006年出版的《科学透视主义》(辩论的起点)以来对透视现实主义最全面的评估。作者对透视现实主义的历史、认识论和形而上学基础进行了细致的分析，同时她对现有文献进行了批判，她通过对先前对艺术状态的贡献(吉尔、莫里森、范·弗拉森等人的作品)表示了慷慨的敬意。然而，我提出了一系列关于Massimi的(视角)承诺的问题，以质疑她的全球计划的范围和野心，特别是她在多元文化和历史视角下的适度认识论信仰与她对自然法则的原始主义观点的雄心勃勃的形而上学承诺之间不断上升的紧张关系。

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期刊介绍： International Studies in the Philosophy of Science is a scholarly journal dedicated to publishing original research in philosophy of science and in philosophically informed history and sociology of science. Its scope includes the foundations and methodology of the natural, social, and human sciences, philosophical implications of particular scientific theories, and broader philosophical reflection on science. The editors invite contributions not only from philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, but also from researchers in the sciences. The journal publishes articles from a wide variety of countries and philosophical traditions.