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Critical scientific realism /
Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys different varieties of realism, sets out his own original version, and defends it against competing theories.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Varieties of Realism
- 1.1 The problems of realism
- 1.2 Science and other belief systems
- 1.3 Critical scientific realism and its rivals
- 1.4 Realism and the method of philosophy
- 2. Realism in Ontology
- 2.1 Materialism, dualism, and idealism
- 2.2 Popper's three worlds
- 2.3 Existence, mind-independence, and reality
- 2.4 The world and its furniture
- 2.5 Arguments for ontological realism
- 3. Realism in Semantics
- 3.1 Language as representation
- 3.2 Logical, analytic, and factual truth
- 3.3 How semantics is effable: model theory.
- 3.4 Truth as correspondence: Tarski's definition
- 3.5 Truthlikeness
- 4. Realism in Epistemology
- 4.1 Certainty, scepticism, and fallibilism
- 4.2 Knowledge of the external world
- 4.3 Kant's 'Copernican revolution'
- 4.4 Critical epistemological realism
- 4.5 Epistemic probability and verisimilitude
- 4.6 Epistemic theories of truth
- 5. Realism in Theory Construction
- 5.1 Descriptivism, instrumentalism, and realism
- 5.2 Meaning variance, reference, and theoretical terms
- 5.3 Laws, truthlikeness, and idealization
- 5.4 Examples of the realism debate
- 6. Realism in Methodology.
- 6.1 Measuring the success of science
- 6.2 Axiology and methodological rules
- 6.3 Theory-choice, underdetermination, and simplicity
- 6.4 From empirical success to truthlikeness
- 6.5 Explaining the success of science
- 6.6 Rationality and progress in science
- 7. Internal Realism
- 7.1 Ways of worldmaking
- 7.2 Putnam on internal realism
- 7.3 World-versions and identified objects
- 8. Relativism
- 8.1 Varieties of relativism
- 8.2 Moral relativism
- 8.3 Cognitive relativism
- 8.4 Feminist philosophy of science
- 9. Social Constructivism.
- 9.1 The Edinburgh programme: strong or wrong?
- 9.2 Finitism
- 9.3 Life in laboratory
- 10. Realism, Science, and Society
- 10.1 Social reasons for realism and anti-realism
- 10.2 Science as a cultural value
- 10.3 Science in a free society
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