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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • History of Science
  • Celestial Mechanics

Background:

  • The scientific realism debate features prominent positions like deployment realism and structural realism.
  • Historical scientific successes provide key case studies for evaluating these philosophical positions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge and adjudicate between deployment realism and structural realism.
  • To analyze historical celestial mechanics cases to test the adequacy of these realism theories.

Main Methods:

  • Examining historical successes in celestial mechanics.
  • Evaluating deployment realism against cases of novel predictive success with false theoretical constituents.
  • Assessing structural realism's ability to accommodate historical data without losing explanatory content.

Main Results:

  • Historical celestial mechanics cases reveal novel predictive successes achieved using theoretically false constituents, challenging deployment realism.
  • Accommodating these cases forces structural realism's notion of "structure" to become explanatorily vacuous.
  • Refinements to structural realism do not resolve the conflict with historical evidence.

Conclusions:

  • Both deployment realism and structural realism are significantly threatened by historical scientific successes.
  • The historical challenge these theories were meant to answer ultimately undermines them.