The Paradox of Predictivism 1st Edition by Eric Christian Barnes ISBN 978-0511392955

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ISBN 13: 978-0511392955

Author:  Eric Christian Barnes

An enduring question in the philosophy of science is the question of whether a scientific theory deserves more credit for its successful predictions than it does for accommodating data that was already known when the theory was developed. In The Paradox of Predictivism, Eric Barnes argues that the successful prediction of evidence testifies to the general credibility of the predictor in a way that evidence does not when the evidence is used in the process of endorsing the theory. He illustrates his argument with an important episode from nineteenth-century chemistry, Mendeleev’s Periodic Law and its successful predictions of the existence of various elements. The consequences of this account of predictivism for the realist/anti-realist debate are considerable, and strengthen the status of the ‘no miracle’ argument for scientific realism. Barnes’s important and original contribution to the debate will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy of science.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 2 Epistemic pluralism
Chapter 3 Predictivism and the Periodic Table of the Elements
Chapter 4 Miracle arguments and the demise of strong predictivism
Chapter 5 The predicting community
Chapter 6 Back to epistemic pluralism
Chapter 7 Postlude on old evidence
Chapter 8 A paradox resolved
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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