Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science Beijing Intern

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Editor ROBERTS. COHEN, Boston University

EditorialAdvisoryBoard mOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ADOLFGRUNBAUM, University ofPittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARXW. WARTOFSKY, Baruch Collegeof

the City University ofNew York

VOLUME 169

REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Tscha Hung with C. G. Hempel. Vienna 1982.

REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Beijing International Conference, 1992

Edited by

ROBERT S. COHEN Boston University

RISTO HILPINEN University of Turku and University of Miami and

QIU RENZONG Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of seienee Be t j Inq International Conferenee. 1992 I edited by Robert S. Cohen . Risto Hilpinen. Oiu Renzong . p. em. -- (Boston studies in the philosophy of seienee ; v. 169) "Be i j i ng International Conferenee on Philosophy of Seienee"--Pref . p , 10. Ine 1udes index . 1. Realism--Congresses. 2 . Seienee--Philosophy--Congresses. 1. Cuhan , R. S. (Robar t Sonne) I!. H t lp men , Risto . II1. Ch' tu , Jen-tsung. IV. Beijing International Conferenee on Philosophy of Seienee (1992) V. Series. 0175. 32. R42R43 1995 94-39752 501 - -de20

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

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ROBERT S. COHEN / Recollections of Tscha Hung FAN DAINIAN / Hong Qian (Tscha Hung) and the Vienna Circle

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PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS RISTO HILPINEN / On Some Formulations of Realism, or How Many Objects Are There in the World? RUDOLPH KREJCI/Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism Problem ALAN MUSGRAVE / Realism, Truth and Objectivity ILKKA NIINILUOTO / Queries about Internal Realism QIU RENZONG / How to Know What Rises Up Is the Moon? - On the Concept of Realism and the Irrelevancy of Quantum Mechanics to the Debate on Realism vs. Antirealism DEMETRA SFENDONI-MENTZOU / The Reality of Thirdness - A Potential-Pragmatic Account of Laws of Nature ARCHIE J. BAHM / Tentative Realism F. WALLNER AND M. F. PESCHLI Cognitive Science - An Experiment in Constructive Realism; Constructive Realism - An Experiment in Cognitive Science

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REALISM AND GENERAL METHODOLOGY JAMES ROBERT BROWN / Phenomena ALLAN FRANKLIN / There Are No Antirealists in the Laboratory KOSTAS GAVROGLU / Can Theories of Chemistry Provide an Argument Against Realism? MATTHIAS KAISER / Empirical V