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Philosophy of Sciences

2016 year, number 3

CLASSICAL EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE TESTIFIES AGAINST SCIENTIFIC REALISM

I.A. Kuzin
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", 21/4, Staraya Basmannaya st., Moscow, 105066, Russia
Keywords: адаптационизм, Б. ван Фраассен, научный реализм, научный прогресс, эволюционный прогресс, эволюционная эпистемология, B. adaptationism, van Fraassen, scientific realism, scientific progress, evolutionary progress, evolutionary epistemology

Abstract

Nowdays every serious attempt to justify scientific realism is obliged to somehow manage van Fraassen’s employment of evolutionary epistemology against the important realistic «no-miracles argument». Thus a systematic translation of arguments pro et contra sufficiency of natural selection for evolutionary progress into epistemological language is needed. The main thesis of this paper is that it is difficult and maybe even impossible to reconcile scientific realism with classic evolutionary epistemology based on selectionist models.