Critical scientific realism
- Title
- Critical scientific realism / Ilkka Niiniluoto.
- Published by
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Author
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- Description
- xiv, 341 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Series statement
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy
- Uniform title
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
- Subject
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-329) and indexes.