Varieties of Scientific Realism Objectivity and Truth in Science
This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been sub
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Varieties of Scientific Realism Objectivity and Truth in Science
Varieties of Scientific Realism
Evandro Agazzi Editor
Varieties of Scientific Realism Objectivity and Truth in Science
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Editor Evandro Agazzi Universidad Panamericana Mexico City Mexico
ISBN 978-3-319-51607-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51608-0
ISBN 978-3-319-51608-0
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Contents
Introduction: The Conceptual Knots of the Realism Debate . . . . . . . . . . Evandro Agazzi The Debates on Scientific Realism Today: Knowledge and Objectivity in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mario Alai The Truth of Theories and Scientific Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evandro Agazzi Part I
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Realism and Antirealism
Strict Empiricism Versus Explanation in Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Musgrave
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Misdirection and Misconception in the Scientific Realism Debates . . . . . Bas C. van Fraassen
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Selective Scientific Realism: Representation, Objectivity and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michel Ghins
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Robustness, Intersubjective Reproducibility, and Scientific Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marco Buzzoni
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Cognitive Illusions and Nonrealism: Objections and Replies . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Nickles
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Why Do Theories Fail? The Best Argument for Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerhard Vollmer
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