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Journal: FILOSOFIE DNES
Year: 2016

What is conventionalism in philosophy of science?Basically, it is a thesis about empirical underdetermination.According to Conventionalists, there is "a slack" between our theories and experience that is to be "lined" with conventions.As the experience does not "impose" any theory, scientists are always free to choose a theory on "softer" non-evidential grounds when facing empirical underdetermination."Conventionalism is a philosophy of freedom," as Édouard Le Roy put it.Yet the thing to remembe