Cohen / Hilpinen Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science

1996
ISBN: 978-94-015-8638-2
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 169, 495 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Beijing International Conference, 1992

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Robert S.

Hilpinen, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Recollections about Tscha Hung; R.S. Cohen. Hong Qian (Tscha Hung) and the Vienna Circle; Fan Dainian. Philosophical Arguments. On Some Formulations of Realism, or How Many Objects are there in the World? R. Hilpinen. Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism Problem; R. Krejci. Realism, Truth and Objectivity; A. Musgrave. Queries about Internal Realism; I. Niiniluoto. 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; Qiu Renzong. The Reality of Thirdness - a Potential-Pragmatic Account of Laws of Nature; D. Sfendoni-Mentzou. Tentative Realism; A.J. Bahm. Cognitive Science - an Experiment in Constructive Realism; Constructive Realism - an Experiment in Cognitive Science; F. Wallner, M.F. Peschl. Realism and General Methodology. Phenomena; J.R. Brown. There are No Antirealists in the Laboratory; A. Franklin. Can Theories of Chemistry Provide an Argument Against Realism? K. Gavroglu. Empirical versus Theoretical Progress in Science; M. Kaiser. Science as Ideology; Chin-Tai Kim. Three Stages of Constitution: Historical Changes in the Ontological Status of the Scientific Object; M.W. Wartofsky. Is Natural Science Free from Morality? Wu Qiongbing. Truth and Fiction in Scientific Theory; Yin Zhengkun. Physical Sciences. Niels Bohr and Realism; Fan Dainian. The Bohr-Einstein Debate and the Philosophers' Debate over Realism versus Antirealism; H.J. Folse. On the Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen Paradox and the Relevant Philosophical Problems; He Zuoxiu. On the Neutral Status of QM in the Dispute of Realism vs. Anti-Realism; Hong Dingguo. Double Structure of Tao Reality; Hin Wulun. Realism and Wave-Particle Duality; L.-G. Johansson. Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricism &endash; a Critique; L.-G. Johansson. On Complementarity Reality; Li Li. A Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics; Mao Shiying. Rumford's Experiments on the Materiality of Light &endash; More Heat than Light; M.L. Schagrin. Resolving the Realist&endash;Antirealism Dilemma; R.H. Schlagel. The Mathematicalized Practical Attitude; Zhou Jihong. Social and Biological Sciences. Scientific Realism and Some Peculiarities of Economics; U. Maki. Realism and Antirealism in Evolutionary Biology; T. Shanahan. Anti-Realism and the Complementarity Model of Mind&endash;Brain; P.C.L. Tang, R.W. Brown III. On Realism in History; R.S. Cohen. Index of Names.