A metaphysics for scientific realism: knowing the unobservable
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. In this book, the author traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising recent strategies adopt...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. In this book, the author traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising recent strategies adopted by its proponents. |
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Titel: A metaphysics for scientific realism
Autor: Chakravartty, Anjan
Jahr: 2007
Contents
List of tables page ix
List of figures x
Preface xi
List of abbreviations xvii
Part I Scientific realism today
i Realism and antirealism; metaphysics and empiricism 3
i.i The trouble with common sense 3
1.2 A conceptual taxonomy 8
1.3 Metaphysics, empiricism, and scientific knowledge 13
1.4 The rise of stance empiricism 17
1.5 The fall of the critique of metaphysics 20
2 Selective scepticism: entity realism, structural realism,
semirealism 27
2.1 The entities are not alone 27
2.2 Lessons from epistemic structuralism 33
2.3 Semirealism (or: how to be a sophisticated realist) 39
2.4 Optimistic and pessimistic inductions on past science 45
2.5 The minimal interpretation of structure 52
3 Properties, particulars, and concrete structures 58
3.1 Inventory: what realists know 58
3.2 Mutually entailed particulars and structures 61
3.3 Ontic structuralism: farewell to objects? 70
3.4 Ontological theory change 76
3.5 Return of the motley particulars 80
Part II Metaphysical foundations
4 Causal realism and causal processes 89
4.1 Causal connections and de re necessity 89
viii Contents
4.2 Is causal realism incoherent? 96
4.3 A first answer: relations between events 102
4.4 A better answer: causal processes 107
4.5 Processes for empiricists 114
5 Dispositions, property identity, and laws of nature 119
5.1 The causal property identity thesis 119
5.2 Property naming and necessity 126
5.3 Objections: epistemic and metaphysical 134
5.4 Vacuous laws and the ontology of causal properties 141
5.5 Causal laws, ceteris paribus 147
6 Sociability: natural and scientific kinds 151
6.1 Law statements and the role of kinds 151
6.2 Essences and clusters: two kinds of kinds 156
6.3 Clusters and biological species concepts 162
6.4 Sociability (or: how to make kinds with properties) 168
6.5 Beyond objectivity, subjectivity, and promiscuity 174
Part III Theory meets world
7 Representing and describing: theories and models 183
7.1 Descriptions and non-linguistic representations 183
7.2 Representing via abstraction and idealization 187
7.3 Extracting information from models 192
7.4 The inescapabiliry of correspondence 199
7.5 Approximation and geometrical structures 205
8 Approximate truths about approximate truth 212
8.1 Knowledge in the absence of truth simpliciter 212
8.2 Measuring "truth-likeness" 214
8.3 Truth as a comparator for art and science 218
8.4 Depiction versus denotation; description versus reference 224
8.5 Products versus production; theories and models versus practice 230
References 235
Index 244 |
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Titel: A metaphysics for scientific realism
Autor: Chakravartty, Anjan
Jahr: 2007
Contents
List of tables page ix
List of figures x
Preface xi
List of abbreviations xvii
Part I Scientific realism today
i Realism and antirealism; metaphysics and empiricism 3
i.i The trouble with common sense 3
1.2 A conceptual taxonomy 8
1.3 Metaphysics, empiricism, and scientific knowledge 13
1.4 The rise of stance empiricism 17
1.5 The fall of the critique of metaphysics 20
2 Selective scepticism: entity realism, structural realism,
semirealism 27
2.1 The entities are not alone 27
2.2 Lessons from epistemic structuralism 33
2.3 Semirealism (or: how to be a sophisticated realist) 39
2.4 Optimistic and pessimistic inductions on past science 45
2.5 The minimal interpretation of structure 52
3 Properties, particulars, and concrete structures 58
3.1 Inventory: what realists know 58
3.2 Mutually entailed particulars and structures 61
3.3 Ontic structuralism: farewell to objects? 70
3.4 Ontological theory change 76
3.5 Return of the motley particulars 80
Part II Metaphysical foundations
4 Causal realism and causal processes 89
4.1 Causal connections and de re necessity 89
viii Contents
4.2 Is causal realism incoherent? 96
4.3 A first answer: relations between events 102
4.4 A better answer: causal processes 107
4.5 Processes for empiricists 114
5 Dispositions, property identity, and laws of nature 119
5.1 The causal property identity thesis 119
5.2 Property naming and necessity 126
5.3 Objections: epistemic and metaphysical 134
5.4 Vacuous laws and the ontology of causal properties 141
5.5 Causal laws, ceteris paribus 147
6 Sociability: natural and scientific kinds 151
6.1 Law statements and the role of kinds 151
6.2 Essences and clusters: two kinds of kinds 156
6.3 Clusters and biological species concepts 162
6.4 Sociability (or: how to make kinds with properties) 168
6.5 Beyond objectivity, subjectivity, and promiscuity 174
Part III Theory meets world
7 Representing and describing: theories and models 183
7.1 Descriptions and non-linguistic representations 183
7.2 Representing via abstraction and idealization 187
7.3 Extracting information from models 192
7.4 The inescapabiliry of correspondence 199
7.5 Approximation and geometrical structures 205
8 Approximate truths about approximate truth 212
8.1 Knowledge in the absence of truth simpliciter 212
8.2 Measuring "truth-likeness" 214
8.3 Truth as a comparator for art and science 218
8.4 Depiction versus denotation; description versus reference 224
8.5 Products versus production; theories and models versus practice 230
References 235
Index 244 |
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