¿Usó Nietzsche el peor argumento del mundo? Una indagación sobre las bases evolucionistas del antirrealismo nietzscheano

Antonio Diéguez

doi:10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi8.10281

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Antonio Diéguez Universidad de Málaga Spain

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https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi8.10281

Keywords:

evolutionary epistemology, fictionalism, the worst argument in the world, David Stove, truth

Abstract

Evolutionary epistemology is one of the mainstays of Nietzsche’s falsification thesis, but precisely for this reason this thesis lacks an adequate support. From an evolutionary point of view, there are not sufficient grounds to uphold Nietzsche’s fictionalism against epistemic realist positions. The argument involved in Nietzsche’s fictionalism is, in fact, a variant of the fallacious argument called by David C. Stove «the
Gem» or «the worst argument in the world». Admittedly, this is not the only way that Nietzsche takes to uphold his antirealism, but it is the main one.

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Author Biography

Antonio Diéguez, Universidad de Málaga

Antonio DIÉGUEZ es Profesor Titular de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en la Universidad de Málaga. Sus líneas de investigación son la epistemología evolucionista, el realismo científico y la filosofía de la tecnología. Visiting scholar en la Universidad de Helsinki y en la Universidad de Harvard. Entre sus últimas publicaciones están:
Filosofía de la Ciencia, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2005; "“Realismo y antirrealismo en la filosofía de la biología”: Ludus Vitalis XIII/23 (2005), 49-71; “Why Does Laudan’s Confutation of Convergent Realism Fail?”: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 37/2 (2006), 393-403.

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