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1999
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Essays on Realism and
Rationalism
Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1999
Contents
Preface
Part I: REALISM
Chapter 1: Explanation, Description and Scientific Realism 1
1 Does science explain as well as describe? 1
2 Do scientific explanations remove puzzlement? 6
3 Are there ultimate explanations? 10
4 Conclusion: Varieties of scientific realism 15
Chapter 2: The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism 17
1 Plato s Problem and the Dogma of Circularity 19
2 Eudoxus 26
3 Aristotle 32
4 Ptolemy 35
5 Astronomical instrumentalism or astronomical scepticism? 49
Chapter 3: The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism 52
Chapter 4: Wittgensteinian Instrumentalism 71
1 Understanding Wittgenstein 72
2 Defending Wittgenstein 82
3 Evaluating Wittgenstein 98
Chapter 5: Realism Versus Constructive Empiricism 106
1 Truth, empirical adequacy, empirical equivalence 106
2 Theory and observation 113
3 Realism and explanation 117
Chapter 6: Realism and Idealisation 131
1 Folk-realism and scientific realism 131
2 Are all generalisations false? 133
3 Simple laws and complex phenomena 138
4 Covering laws versus auxiliary assumptions 144
5 Ideal laws 148
Chapter 7: Unreal Assumptions in Economic Theory: 154
The F-twist untwisted
1 Negligibility assumptions 155
2 Domain assumptions 157
3 Heuristic assumptions 15 8
Chapter 8: NOA s Ark - Fine For Realism 162
Chapter 9: Conceptual Idealism and Stove s Gem 177
Chapter 10: The T-Scheme Plus Epistemic Truth Equals Idealism 185
l TheT-scheme 185
2 Epistemic truth-theories 186
3 Epistemic truth + the T-scheme 188
4 Contingent epistemic truth 190
5 Conclusion 192
Part II: RATIONALISM
Chapter 11: Falsification and its Critics 193
1 Falsification is not disproof 194
2 Polanyi and Kuhn on falsification 198
3 Popper s rule against ad hocness 203
4 Lakatos s positive heuristics and falsification 206
5 Lakatos s negative heuristic and falsification 212
6 Falsification and elimination 219
Chapter 12: Logical versus Historical Theories of Confirmation 229
1 Introduction 229
2 Background Knowledge and the Paradox of Confirmation 231
3 The strictly temporal view of background knowledge 236
4 The heuristic view of background knowledge 240
5 Background knowledge or a background theory? 243
6 Requirements for the growth of knowledge 247
7 Conclusion 250
Chapter 13: Facts and Values in Science Studies 252
1 The problem of scientific progress 252
2 Getting values from facts - historical methodologies 258
3 Getting values from facts - testing methodologies 267
4 Getting facts from values - historical explanations 272
Chapter 14: Deductivism versus Psychologism 279
1 Who needs inductive logic? 279
2 Justifying deduction - and induction 288
Chapter 15: Deductive Heuristics 297
1 Logic of discovery: inductive or deductive 297
2 Early attempts, why they failed, and positivist Orthodoxy 300
3 Examples, and the superiority of deductivist reconstructions 302
4 Some objections considered 306
Chapter 16: Critical Rationalism 314
1 Introduction 314
2 The problem of induction 315
3 Non-solutions 316
4 Popper s solution A: induction is a myth 318
5 Popper s solution B: abandon justificationism 319
6 Critical Rationalism (CR) 322
7 Does CR smuggle in induction - A? 326
8 Does CR smuggle in induction - B? 329
9 Conjectural knowledge 331
10 Miller s mess 332
11 Bartley s comprehensively critical rationalism (CCR) 336
12 Critical rationalism and logical omniscience 338
13 Experience, perceptual belief and Principle E 341
14 An evolutionary argument for Principle E 343
15 Personal knowledge and the division of epistemic labour 347
References 351
Index of names 363
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