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- catalog contributor b11337121.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "10.2. Science as a cultural value -- 10.3. Science in a free society.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 341 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198238339 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clarendon library of logic and philosophy".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "149/.2 21".
- catalog subject "B835 .N55 1999".
- catalog subject "Realism.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "10.2. Science as a cultural value -- 10.3. Science in a free society.".
- catalog title "Critical scientific realism / Ilkka Niiniluoto.".
- catalog type "text".