3.3 Poincaré and Scientific Realism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Editor’s Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Logical Empiricist and Related Reconstructions of Theoretical Knowledge
6. 1.1 The Partial Interpretation Account of Theories 18
7. 1.2 Carnap on Ramsey Sentences and the Explicit Definition of Theoretical Terms 20
8. 1.3 A Proposal of David Lewis and Two Theorems of John Winnie 24
9. 1.4 Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument 32
10. 1.5 Ramsey on Russell’s Analysis of Matter and the Partial Interpretation of Theories 39
11. 1.6 Constructive Empiricism and Partial Interpretation 53
12. 2 Molecular Reality
13. 2.1 The Molecular Hypothesis 64
14. 2.2 Molecular Reality and Brownian Motion 65
15. 2.3 The Nature and Status of Perrin’s “Connecting Link” 78
16. 2.4 Perrin’s Argument for Molecular Reality 83
17. 2.5 Thomson and the Constitution of Cathode Rays 93
18. 3 Poincaré on the Theories of Modern Physics
19. 3.1 Poincaré on “True Relations” 100
20. 3.2 Robustness versus Consilience 110
21. 3.3 Poincaré and Scientific Realism 113
22. 3.4 Russell and Poincaré 116
23. 4 Quantum Reality
24. 4.1 Bohr on the Primacy of Classical Concepts 121
25. 4.2 Complementarity, Completeness, and Einstein’s Local Realism 139
26. 4.3 Bell’s Theorem and Einstein’s Local Realism 154
27. 4.4 Quantum Mechanics and Reality 172
28. Editor’s Afterword 187
29. Notes 205
30. Bibliography 225
31. Acknowledgments 235
32. Index 239