Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. A Case for Scientific Realism 8
6. 3. The Current Status of Scientific Realism 41
7. 4. The Natural Ontological Attitude 83
8. 5. The Path from Data to Theory 108
9. 6. What Kind of Explanation is Truth? 124
10. 7. What is Realism? 140
11. 8. Experimentation and Scientific Realism 154
12. 9. Explanation and Realism 173
13. 10. Truth and Scientific Progress 193
14. 11. A Confutation of Convergent Realism 218
15. 12. To Save the Phenomena 250
16. Index of Names 261
17. Index of Subjects 265