Rationality and Reality

1. Introduction
Colin Cheyne

2. Where Does the Burden of Theory Lie?
Gregory Currie

3. Testimony, Induction and Reasonable Belief
Colin Cheyne

4. Theory-Confirmation and History
John Worrall

5. Critical Rationalism and its Failure to Withstand Critical Scrutiny
Deborah G. Mayo

6. Methodological Rules, Rationality, and Truth
Volker Gadenne

7. Why is it Rational to Believe Scientific Theories are True?
Howard Sankey

8. Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism
Stathis Psillos

9. The Unseen World
Michael Redhead

10. Why Alan Musgrave Should Become an Essentialist
Alan Chalmers

11. The Metaphysics of Realism and Structural Realism
Robert Nola

12. Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell
Mark Colyvan

13. A Methodological Critique of the Semantic Conception of Theories
Noretta Koertge

14. A Refutation of Peircean Idealism
Graham Oddie

15. Historiography as a Hypothetico-Deductive Science: A Criticism of Methodological Historism
Hans Albert

16. Ptolemy's Musical Models for Mind-Maps and Star-Maps
Andrew Barker

17. Responses
Alan Musgrave

DRM-restrictions

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