Instrumentalism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:33 1 History
00:01:42 1.1 British empiricism
00:04:27 1.2 German idealism
00:06:00 1.3 Logical empiricism
00:11:06 1.4 Historical turn
00:15:33 1.5 Revival of realism
00:16:05 1.6 Revival of empiricism
00:16:29 2 See also
00:16:59 3 Notes
00:17:08 4 Sources



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Instrumentalism is an interpretation within the philosophy of science that holds that a successful scientific theory reveals nothing known either true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes.  According to instrumentalists, scientific theory is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of nature by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while theories themselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of nature that somehow explain these laws.  Initially a novel perspective introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906, instrumentalism is largely the prevailing theory that underpins the practice of physicists today.Rejecting scientific realism's ambitions to uncover metaphysical truth about nature, instrumentalism is usually categorized as an antirealism, although its mere lack of commitment to scientific theory's realism can be termed nonrealism.  Instrumentalism merely bypasses debate concerning whether, for example, a particle spoken about in particle physics is a discrete entity enjoying individual existence, or is an excitation mode of a region of a field, or is something else altogether.  Instrumentalism holds that theoretical terms need only be useful to predict the phenomena, the observed outcomes.Instrumentalism is a variety of scientific anti-realism.