{
  "id": "engaging-philosophically-with-the-history-of-science-two-challenges-for-27095",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "Engaging philosophically with the history of science: two challenges for scientific realism",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Theodore Arabatzis"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "9",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2018,
        2,
        15
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/engaging-philosophically-with-the-history-of-science-two-challenges-for-27095/",
  "page": "35-37",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v9i1.27095",
  "abstract": "I raise two challenges for scientific realists. The first is a pessimistic meta-induction (PMI), but not of the more common type, which focuses on rejected theories and abandoned entities. Rather, the PMI I have in mind departs from conceptual change, which is ubiquitous in science. Scientific concepts change over time, often to a degree that is difficult to square with the stability of their referents, a sine qua non for realists. The second challenge is to make sense of successful scientific practice that was centered on entities that have turned out to be fictitious"
}