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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Novelty in Scientific Realism: New Approaches to an Ongoing Debate 1
4. I New Framework for the Realism and Anti-realism Debate
5. Scientific Realism: What’s All the Fuss? 27
6. Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best Explanation 48
7. Scientific Realism and the Conflict with Common Sense 68
8. II Approaches based on History and Scientific Realism
9. Evolving Realities: Scientific Prediction and Objectivity from the Perspective of Historical Epistemology 87
10. Do Cognitive Illusions Make Scientific Realism Deceptively Attractive? 104
11. III Logical Approaches in Realist Terms
12. Against Paraconsistentism 133
13. Stratified Nomic Realism 145
14. IV Logico-Epistemological Structural Realism and Instrumental Realism
15. Structural Realism: The Only Defensible Realist Game in Town? 169
16. Mathematical Language and the Changing Concept of Physical Reality 206
17. V New Developments on Critical Scientific Realism and Pragmatic Realism
18. Interdisciplinarity from the Perspective of Critical Scientific Realism 231
19. Pragmatic Realism and Scientific Prediction: The Role of Complexity 251
20. VI Realism on Causality and Representation
21. Realism and AIM (Action, Intervention, Manipulation) Theories of Causality 291
22. Is Physics Biased Against Alternative Possibilities? 305
23. VII Realist Accounts on Objectivity and Facts
24. Realistic Components in the Conception of Pragmatic Idealism: The Role of Objectivity and the Notion of “Fact” 331
25. “Heard Enough from the Experts”? A Popperian Enquiry 348
26. Realism in Archaeology – A Philosophical Perspective 365
27. VIII Realism and the Social World: From Social Sciences to the Sciences of the Artificial
28. A Structural Realist Approach to International Relations Theory 391
29. Objectivity and Truth in Sciences of Communication and the Case of the Internet 415
30. Index of Names 437
31. Subject Index 447