Critical scientific realism

Critical scientific realism / Ilkka Niiniluoto.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niiniluoto, Ilkka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
Subjects:
Realism.
Science > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Realism.
Realism
Science > Philosophy
Wetenschapsfilosofie.
Realisme (filosofie)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • References
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  • Index of Subjects
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