TY - JOUR AU - Olmos Gómez, Paula PY - 2018/10/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Justification of Abduction in the Context of the Debate over Scientific Realism: an Argumentative Approach JF - ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología JA - Artefactos VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Monographic Section DO - 10.14201/art2018723557 UR - https://revistas.usal.es/cinco/index.php/artefactos/article/view/art2018723557 SP - 35-57 AB - <p>The new perspectives on the nature of justifying practices brought by the development of a non-formal and non-deductivistic argumentation theory offer us the opportunity to revisit some central issues for the Philosophy of Science and revise our analysis of the typical ways to give, ask for and critically receive reasons in the Sciences. The use of the notions and distinctions developed by this theoretical framework help us clarify the rational structure of the scientific agents’ evidentiary discourse, which includes closely interrelated both argumentative and explanatory acts. This determines the centrality of a meta-explanatory argumentative scheme such is abduction. However, there is a philosophical debate that goes beyond the identification and comprehension of these rational structures and even beyond their assessment conducted by the participants in scientific discussions. This is the debate among philosophers regarding the epistemic justification of abduction, closely related to the different stances regarding the justifying possibilities of scientific realism. This paper revises different viewpoints on the justification of abduction, exposing their argumentative import and the way they govern the comprehension of particular abductive arguments.</p> ER -