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Varieties of Scientific Realism

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Conceptual Knots of the Realism Debate
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    Chapter 2 The Debates on Scientific Realism Today: Knowledge and Objectivity in Science
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    Chapter 3 The Truth of Theories and Scientific Realism
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    Chapter 4 Strict Empiricism Versus Explanation in Science
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    Chapter 5 Misdirection and Misconception in the Scientific Realism Debates
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    Chapter 6 Selective Scientific Realism: Representation, Objectivity and Truth
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    Chapter 7 Robustness, Intersubjective Reproducibility, and Scientific Realism
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    Chapter 8 Cognitive Illusions and Nonrealism: Objections and Replies
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    Chapter 9 Why Do Theories Fail? The Best Argument for Realism
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    Chapter 10 The Epistemological Problem of the Objectivity of Knowledge
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    Chapter 11 Scientific Realism and the Mind-Independence of the World
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    Chapter 12 Structural Realism and the Toolbox of Metaphysics
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    Chapter 13 Retention, Truth-Content and Selective Realism
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    Chapter 14 A Scheme-Interpretationist and Actionistic Scientific Realism
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    Chapter 15 Semantic Definition of Truth, Empirical Theories and Scientific Realism
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    Chapter 16 Underdetermination, Realism and Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 17 Is Uniqueness of Reality Predicted by the Quantum Laws?
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    Chapter 18 Theories and Models: Realism and Objectivity in Cognitive Science
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    Chapter 19 Realism as the Methodological Strategy in the Cognitive Science
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    Chapter 20 Causation and Scientific Realism: Mechanisms and Powers without Essentialism
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    Chapter 21 Objectivity in Mathematics: The Structuralist Roots of a Pragmatic Realism
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    Chapter 22 Mathematical Truth Revisited: Mathematics as a Toolbox
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Title
Varieties of Scientific Realism
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51608-0
ISBNs
978-3-31-951607-3, 978-3-31-951608-0
Editors

Evandro Agazzi

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 14%
Student > Master 3 14%
Professor 2 9%
Lecturer 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 7 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 4 18%
Linguistics 2 9%
Social Sciences 2 9%
Mathematics 1 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Other 4 18%
Unknown 8 36%