Cargando…

Scientific Realism

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leplin, Jarrett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Case for Scientific Realism
  • 3. The Current Status of Scientific Realism
  • 4. The Natural Ontological Attitude
  • 5. The Path from Data to Theory
  • 6. What Kind of Explanation is Truth?
  • 7. What is Realism?
  • 8. Experimentation and Scientific Realism
  • 9. Explanation and Realism
  • 10. Truth and Scientific Progress
  • 11. A Confutation of Convergent Realism
  • 12. To Save the Phenomena
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects