Rationality and Reality Conversations with Alan Musgrave
Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well
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Rationality and Reality Conversations with Alan Musgrave Edited by Colin Cheyne and John Worrall
Colin Cheyne and
Rationality and Reality
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 20
General Editor: S. GAUKROGER, University of Sydney Editorial Advisory Board: RACHEL ANKENY, University of Sydney STEVEN FRENCH, University of Leeds DAVID PAPINEAU, King’s College London NICHOLAS RASMUSSEN, University of New South Wales JOHN SCHUSTER, University of New South Wales RICHARD YEO, Griffith University
RATIONALITY AND REALITY Conversations with Alan Musgrave
Edited by
COLIN CHEYNE University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and
JOHN WORRALL London School of Economics, London, UK
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-4206-X (HB) 978-1-4020-4206-X (HB) 1-4020-4207-8 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4207-8 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
Cover: Photograph of Alan Musgrave used with kind permission of Gudrun Perin, Guelph, Canada
Printed on acid-free paper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on Contributors
ix
COLIN CHEYNE / Introduction
1
GREGORY CURRIE / Where Does the Burden of Theory Lie?
7
COLIN CHEYNE / Testimony, Induction and Reasonable Belief
19
JOHN WORRALL / Theory-Confirmation and History
31
DEBORAH G. MAYO / Critical Rationalism and its Failure to Withstand Critical Scrutiny
63
VOLKER GADENNE / Methodological Rules, Rationality, and Truth
97
HOWARD SANKEY / Why is it Rational to Believe Scientific Theories are True?
109
STATHIS PSILLOS / Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism
133
MICHAEL REDHEAD / The Unseen World
157
ALAN CHALMERS / Why Alan Musgrave Should Become an Essentialist
165
ROBERT NOLA / The Metaphysics of Realism and Structural Realism
183
MARK COLYVAN / Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell
225
NORETTA KOERTGE / A Methodological Critique of the Semantic Conception of Theories
239
GRAHAM ODDIE / A Refutation of Peircean Idealism
255
HANS ALBERT / Historiography as a Hypothetico-Deductive Science: A Criticism of Methodological Historism
263
ANDREW BARKER / Ptolemy’s Musical Models for Mind-Maps and Star-Maps
273
ALAN MUSGRAVE / Responses
293
Index of Names
335
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors are indebted to Robert Nola, David Papineau and Stephen Gaukroger for their invaluable assistance and advice, and to Alan Musgrave for his enthusiastic support. We are also grateful for the secretarial
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