Knowing the structure of nature: essays on realism and explanation
In this sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Scientific Realism', Psillos discusses recent developments in scientific realism & explores realist theses & commitments. He examines the structuralist turn in the philosophy of science & offers a framework within which inference to the b...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Scientific Realism', Psillos discusses recent developments in scientific realism & explores realist theses & commitments. He examines the structuralist turn in the philosophy of science & offers a framework within which inference to the best explanation can be defended. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-223) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXVII, 230 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230007116 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS PREFAEE INTRODUCTION PART I SCIENTIFIC REALISM X XIII 1 THE
PRESENT STATE OF THE SCIENTIFIC REALISM DEBATE 3 1.1 MODESTY AND
PRESUMPTUOUSNESS 4 1.1.1 COMPROMISING PRESUMPTUOUSNESS 5 1.1.2
COMPROMISING MODESTY 6 1.1.3 CONCEPTUAL INDEPENDENCE AND EPISTEMIC LUCK
10 1.2 EPISTEMIC OPTIMISM 13 ADDENDUM 22 AL. SEMIREALISM: A SHORT
CRITIQUE 22 A2. THE NATURAL HISTORICAL ATTITUDE: A SHORT CRITIQUE 25 A3.
CONSTRUCTIVIST ANTI-REALISM: A SHORT CRITIQUE 29 2 SCIENTIFIC REALISM
AND METAPHYSICS 34 2.1 A FACTUALIST CONCEPTION OF REALITY 35 2.2 A
FUNDAMENTALIST CONCEPTION OF REALITY 36 2.3 FACTUALISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM
38 2.4 MIND-INDEPENDENCE 39 2.5 SCIENTIFIC REALISM REVISITED 42 2.6 HOW
STRONG IS THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENTIFIC REALISM? 44 3 THINKING ABOUT THE
ULTIMATE ARGUMENT FOR REALISM 48 3.1 THE NO-MIRACLES ARGUMENT 49 3.2
DEDUCTIVISM 52 3.3 SUBJECTIVE BAYESIANISM TO THE RESCUE? 56 3.4 A WHIFF
OF OBJECTIVISM 58 3.5 IGNORING BASE-RATES 61 3.6 TAKING ACCOUNT OF CASE
HISTORIES 65 3.7 LIKELIHOODISM 66 VII VIII CONTENTS 4 AGAINST
NEO-INSTRUMENTALISM 69 4.1 NEW INDUCTION VS PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION 69 4.2
RESISTING PI S REHABILITATION 70 4.3 EXHAUSTING THE CONCEPTUAL SPACE: NO
THANKS 72 4.4 BALANCING TWO KINDS OF EVIDENCE 75 4.5 LIBERAL
INSTRUMENTALISM 77 5 TRACKING THE REAL: THROUGH THICK AND THIN 84 5.1
THEORETICAL IRREALISM VS HOLISTIC REALISM 85 5.2 ON THE EPISTEMIC
AUTHORITY OF OBSERVATION 86 5.3 THE PICTURE OF THE LEVELS 89 5.4 QUINEAN
VIRTUES 95 6 CARTWRIGHT S REALIST TOIL: FROM ENTITIES TO CAPACITIES 99
6.1 CAUSAL EXPLANATION 100 6.1.1 ONTIC COMMITMENT 101 6.1.2 WHAT EXACTLY
IS A CAUSAL EXPLANATION? 102 6.2 CAUSAL INFERENCE 103 6.2.1 INFERENCE TO
THE MOST LIKELY CAUSE 104 6.2.2 INFERENCE TO THE BEST CAUSE 106 6.3 WHY
DENY INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION? 107 6.3.1 THE TRANSCENDENTAL
ARGUMENT 107 6.3.2 FALSE LAWS? 109 6.4 CAPACITIES 111 6.4.1 NOMOLOGICAL
MACHINES 111 6.4.2 WHY DO WE NEED CAPACITIES? 112 6.5 WHAT ARE
CAPACITIES? 118 6.6 CAPACITIES AND LAWS 119 PART 11 STRUCTURAL REALISM 7
IS STRUCTURAL REALISM POSSIBLE? 125 7.1 THE UPWARD PATH 125 7.2 THE
DOWNWARD PATH 130 8 THE STRUCTURE, THE WHOLE STRUCTURE AND NOTHING HUT
THE STRUCTURE? 136 8.1 THE STRUCTURE 137 8.2 THE WHOLE STRUCTURE 141 8.3
AND NOTHING BUT THE STRUCTURE 143 9 RAMSEY S RAMSEY-SENTENCES 9.1
RAMSEY S THEORIES 9.2 EXISTENTIAL JUDGEMENTS 9.3 RAMSEY-SENTENCES 9.4
RUSSELL S STRUCTURALISM 9.5 MAXWELL S STRUCTURALISM 9.6 WORRALL AND
ZAHAR S STRUCTURALISM 9.7 RAMSEY AND NEWMAN S PROBLEM 9.8 RAMSEYAN
HUMILITY CONTENTS IX 147 148 150 152 ISS 157 161 163 168 PART III
INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION 10 SIMPLY THE BEST: A CASE FOR
ABDUCTION 173 10.1 AMPLIATION AND EPISTEMIC WARRANT 174 10.2 BETWEEN TWO
EXTREMES 177 10.2.1 DEFEASIBILITY AND DEFEATERS 177 10.2.2 ENUMERATIVE
INDUCTION 178 10.2.3 THE METHOD OF HYPOTHESIS 180 10.3 A CASE FOR
ABDUCTION 182 10.3.1 WHAT IS ABDUCTION? 182 10.3.2 SOME PHILOSOPHICAL
ISSUES 186 10.3.3 ABDUCTION AND THE TWO DESIDERATA 190 11 INFERENCE TO
THE BEST EXPLANATION AND BAYESIANISM 195 11.1 IBEAND BAYESIAN KINEMATICS
196 11.2 LIKELIHOODS AND THE BASE-RATE FALLACY 197 11.3 EXPLANATION AND
PRIOR PROBABILITIES 198 11.4 A DILEMMA 199 NOTES 202 REFERENCES 214
INDEX 224
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