Scientific truth

Truth and Scientific Change

Truth, Scientific Understanding and Haugeland’s Existential Ontology

Presidential Address: Truth and error in scientific publishing

The style of a journal paper follows a typical stylised form. It always has a title, a list of authors, their affiliations, and an abstract. Typically, papers have a length of 3 000 to 10 000 words. However, there have to be those who take things to the extreme. Among the contenders for the longest title of a research paper is ’The nucleotide sequence of a 3.2 kb segment of mitochondrial maxici...

The Concept of Scientific Truth and the Unity of Sciences

This contribution deals with the problem of the unity of sciences through a critica! analysis of the concept of scientific truth. As a first result it estahlishes sorne traits of the concept of truth according to the present dispersion of the different sciences. From this perspective, it proposes a possible content of scientific truth as a ·relative• and -sufficient· truth derived, on the one h...

Modelling the truth of scientific beliefs with cultural evolutionary theory

Evolutionary anthropologists and archaeologists have been considerably successful in modelling the cumulative evolution of culture, of technological skills and knowledge in particular. Recently, one of these models has been introduced in the philosophy of science by De Cruz and De Smedt (2012), in an attempt to demonstrate that scientists may collectively come to hold more truth-approximating b...