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Tables of Contents for Critical Scientific Realism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Varieties of Realism
1
20
The problems of realism
1
3
Science and other belief systems
4
5
Critical scientific realism and its rivals
9
4
Realism and the method of philosophy
13
8
Realism in Ontology
21
21
Materialism, dualism, and idealism
21
2
Popper's three worlds
23
2
Existence, mind-independence, and reality
25
3
The world and its furniture
28
8
Arguments for ontological realism
36
6
Realism in Semantics
42
37
Language as representation
42
5
Logical, analytic, and factual truth
47
4
How semantics is effable: model theory
51
4
Truth as correspondence: Tarski's definition
55
9
Truthlikeness
64
15
Realism in Epistemology
79
30
Certainty, scepticism, and fallibilism
79
6
Knowledge of the external world
85
3
Kant's `Copernican revolution'
88
3
Critical epistemological realism
91
4
Epistemic probability and verisimilitude
95
5
Epistemic theories of truth
100
9
Realism in Theory Construction
109
51
Descriptivism, instrumentalism, and realism
109
11
Meaning variance, reference, and theoretical terms
120
12
Laws, truthlikeness, and idealization
132
12
Examples of the realism debate
144
16
Realism in Methodology
160
45
Measuring the success of science
160
10
Axiology and methodological rules
170
4
Theory-choice, underdetermination, and simplicity
174
11
From empirical success to truthlikeness
185
7
Explaining the success of science
192
6
Rationality and progress in science
198
7
Internal Realism
205
22
Ways of worldmaking
205
6
Putnam on internal realism
211
7
World-versions and identified objects
218
9
Relativism
227
25
Varieties of relativism
227
2
Moral relativism
229
7
Cognitive relativism
236
6
Feminist philosophy of science
242
10
Social Constructivism
252
27
The Edinburgh programme: strong or wrong?
253
9
Finitism
262
6
Life in laboratory
268
11
Realism, Science, and Society
279
23
Social reasons for realism and anti-realism
280
8
Science as a cultural value
288
5
Science in a free society
293
9
References
302
29
Index of Names
331
8
Index of Subjects
339