KnowraInstrumentalismLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Instrumentalism, each with the reason it gives.All 15Broader topic 1Related 2Compared with 12John DeweyBroader topic: It captures his view that concepts are tools tested by what they help people do.Technological determinismCompared with: It contrasts with claims that technologies carry social consequences in their design.Philosophy of scienceCompared with: It offers a more cautious alternative to treating theoretical entities as real.Occam's razorCompared with: Instrumentalism can favor predictive success without requiring the simplest theory to describe reality.EthnogenesisCompared with: It stresses deliberate mobilization more than long-term identity formation.AbductionCompared with: Instrumentalists can accept useful abductive models without treating their hidden entities as real.UnderdeterminationCompared with: It avoids choosing among incompatible accounts of unobservables when their observable predictions coincide.Eliminative materialismCompared with: Instrumentalists may retain belief-talk as useful, while eliminativists expect its concepts to become obsolete.Pierre DuhemRelated: His conception of theory as representation rather than explanation is often read in instrumentalist terms.Paul FeyerabendCompared with: Feyerabend’s historical arguments complicate both simple realism and simple instrumentalism.VerificationismCompared with: It accepts empirical success while withholding the realist commitment verification debates often raise.Structural MarxismCompared with: Poulantzas rejected reducing the state to a tool directly wielded by capitalists.Economic methodologyCompared with: It contrasts with demands that economic assumptions describe actual behavior or mechanisms.American philosophyRelated: Dewey used this approach to explain concepts as tools within problem-solving inquiry.Mathematical universe hypothesisCompared with: It rejects the hypothesis's claim that mathematical theories can be identical to physical reality.