Agazzi, Evandro
Varieties of Scientific Realism
1. Introduction: The Conceptual Knots of the Realism Debate
Evandro Agazzi
2. The Debates on Scientific Realism Today: Knowledge and Objectivity in Science
Mario Alai
3. The Truth of Theories and Scientific Realism
Evandro Agazzi
Part I. Realism and Antirealism
4. Strict Empiricism Versus Explanation in Science
Alan Musgrave
5. Misdirection and Misconception in the Scientific Realism Debates
Bas C. Fraassen
6. Selective Scientific Realism: Representation, Objectivity and Truth
Michel Ghins
7. Robustness, Intersubjective Reproducibility, and Scientific Realism
Marco Buzzoni
8. Cognitive Illusions and Nonrealism: Objections and Replies
Thomas Nickles
9. Why Do Theories Fail? The Best Argument for Realism
Gerhard Vollmer
10. The Epistemological Problem of the Objectivity of Knowledge
Fabio Minazzi
Part II. Recent Conceptions of Scientific Realism
11. Scientific Realism and the Mind-Independence of the World
Stathis Psillos
12. Structural Realism and the Toolbox of Metaphysics
Steven French
13. Retention, Truth-Content and Selective Realism
Alberto Cordero
14. A Scheme-Interpretationist and Actionistic Scientific Realism
Hans Lenk
Part III. Scientific Realism in Particular Sciences
15. Semantic Definition of Truth, Empirical Theories and Scientific Realism
Jan Woleński
16. Underdetermination, Realism and Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics
Dennis Dieks
17. Is Uniqueness of Reality Predicted by the Quantum Laws?
Roland Omnès
18. Theories and Models: Realism and Objectivity in Cognitive Science
Jean-Guy Meunier
19. Realism as the Methodological Strategy in the Cognitive Science
V. A. Lektorski
20. Causation and Scientific Realism: Mechanisms and Powers without Essentialism
Amparo Gómez
21. Objectivity in Mathematics: The Structuralist Roots of a Pragmatic Realism
Gerhard Heinzmann
22. Mathematical Truth Revisited: Mathematics as a Toolbox
Reinhard Kahle
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ontology
- Editor
- Agazzi, Evandro
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 6 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319516080
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-51607-3