A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism (Record no. 82471)

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Item number C350
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Personal name Chakravartty, Anjan
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Title A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Remainder of title Knowing the Unobservable
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
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Extent 251p
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General note includes index and biblioraphy
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Formatted contents note Part I Scientific realism today 1 Realism and antirealism; metaphysics and empiricism 3 1.1 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 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.i Descriptions and non-linguistic representations 183 7.2 Representing via abstraction and idealization 187 7.3 Extracting information from models 192 7.4 The inescapability 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
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