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Realism Rescued
Author | : Jerrold L. Aronson |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780812692884 |
Does science give us a progressively more accurate and objective account of the world? This book by three leading philosophers of science presents a new defense of scientific realism against skeptical and positivist attacks. While positivists view scientific theories as devices for predicting observable phenomena, realists maintain that theories describe hidden processes which account for observable phenomena. This problem raises the question: What are scientific theories about? Do they refer to an unobservable yet real realm of physical processes? It seems undeniable that the scientific endeavor has in some sense made progress. But is the increasing practical success of the physical sciences good grounds for believing that their theories and techniques lead us nearer to the truth? According to Aronson, Harre, and Way, past failures to answer these questions have been due in large part to the assumption that knowledge is expressed in propositions and organized by the canons of logic. On the assumption that science must meet the world in a correspondence between statements and states of affairs, realism turns out to be difficult to defend. Realism Rescued offers a new direction, relying on the importance of models in scientific work. Theories are not to be thought of as sets of propositions, though they can be expressed propositionally. Rather they are models, chunks of orderings of natural kinds. For the first time, the indispensability of models is turned into a powerful argument for realism, an argument that confronts the skeptic on his own ground. By drawing on a new technique of knowledge representation developed in Artificial Intelligence, the dynamic type-hierarchy, the authorsgive a convincing account of the central role of models. Such concepts as verisimilitude, natural kind, natural necessity, and natural law can then be presented far more clearly than ever before.
Varieties of Realism
Author | : Rom Harré |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 1986-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780631125921 |
A Realist Theory of Science
Author | : Roy Bhaskar |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1789603536 |
A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as 'Critical Realism', which is both intellectually diverse and international in scope, has developed on the basis of key concepts outlined in the text. The book has been hailed in many quarters as a 'Copernican Revolution' in the study of the nature of science, and the implications of its account have been far-reaching for many fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown
Author | : Rom Harré |
Publisher | : Gulf Professional Publishing |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2004-05-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780444514646 |
Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harré's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harré of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harré, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and control of models. Iconic modeling is pivotal for representing real-world structures, explaining phenomena, manipulating instruments, constructing theories, and acquiring data. This volume in the new Elsevier book series Studies in Multidisciplinarity includes major topics on the structure and function of models, the debates over scientific realism, explanation through analogical modeling, a metaphysics for physics, the rationale for experimentation, and modeling in social encounters. * A multidisciplinary work of sweeping scope about the nature of science * Revolutionary interpretation that challenges conventional wisdom about the character of scientific thinking * Profound insights about fundamental challenges to contemporary physics * Brilliant discoveries into the nature of social interaction and human identity * Presents a rational conception of methods for acquiring knowledge of remote regions of the world * Written by one of the great thinkers of our time.
Harré and His Critics
Author | : Roy Bhaskar |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Realism |
ISBN | : 9780631158684 |
Realism in the Sciences
Author | : Igor Douven |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789061867630 |
This book contains ten papers that were presented at the symposium about the realism debate, held at the Center for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language of the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on 10 and 11 March 1995. The first group of papers are directly concerned with the realism/anti-realism debate in the general philosophy of science. This group includes the articles by Ernan McMullin, Diderik Batens/Joke Meheus, Igor Douven and Herman de Regt. The papers of the second group concentrate on specific problems arising from the realism/anti-realism debate. Theo Kuipers' contribution discusses the problem of truth-approximation. Roger Vergauwen's article pertains to the issue of realism in the philosophy of mind and semantics. Jaap van Brakel's article focusses on the relation between everyday concepts and scientific concepts, and on the theory-dependence of observation. Paul Cortois investigates the relation between the question of realism and Kuhn's concept of incommensurability between scientific theories. The final group contains two papers on the realism/anti-realism debate in the special sciences. James Cushing discusses the problem of underdetermination in quantum mechanics and Jean Paul van bendegem addresses the question of the possiblity of an empiricist philosophy of mathematics.
The Formation of Critical Realism
Author | : Roy Bhaskar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010-01-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134050658 |
This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar - the originator of critical realism (and the later philosophy of meta-reality) - and Mervyn Hartwig, a leading commentator on critical realism, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.
Positioning Theory
Author | : Rom Harré |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998-11-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780631211396 |
In this book, Rom Harre give a state of the art overview of positioning theory via contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field.