A Realist Theory of Science

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ISBN: 9780391005761 | 0391005766
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Copyright: 1/28/2013

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This brilliant, systematic and original study describes how only a conception of science as a social activity attempting to capture ever-deeper structures of the world can reconcile the conflicting insights of empiricism and rationalism. This position, which the author characterizes as transcendental realism, has the power to resolve many of the traditional problems in philosophy such as the problems of induction and of universals.

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Preface	p. 6
Preface to the Second Edition	p. 11
Introduction	p. 12
Philosophy and Scientific Realism	p. 21
Two Sides of 'Knowledge'	p. 21
Three Traditions in the Philosophy of Science	p. 24
The Transcendental Analysis of Experience	p. 30
The Status of Ontology and Its Dissolution in Classical Philosophy	p. 36
Ontology Vindicated and The Real Basis of Causal Laws	p. 45
A Sketch of a Critique of Empirical Realism	p. 56
Actualism and the Concept of a Closure	p. 63
Introduction: On the Actuality of the Causal Connection	p. 63
Regularity Determinism and the Quest for a Closure	p. 69
The Classical Paradigm of Action	p. 79
Actualism and Transcendental Realism: The Interpretation of Normic Statements	p. 91
Autonomy and Reduction	p. 105
Explanation in Open Systems	p. 118
Orthodox Philosophy of Science and the Implications of Open Systems	p. 127
The Logic of Scientific Discovery	p. 143
Introduction: On the Contingency of the Causal Connection	p. 143
The Surplus-Element in the Analysis of Law-like Statements: A Critique of the Theory of Models	p. 148
Natural Necessity and Natural Kinds: The Stratification of Nature and The Stratification of Science	p. 163
The Social Production of Knowledge by Means of Knowledge	p. 185
Objections to the Account of Natural Necessity Proposed	p. 199
The Problem of Induction	p. 215
Natural Tendencies and Causal Powers	p. 229
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science	p. 239
Postscript to the Second Edition	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 263
Index of names	p. 273
Index of subjects	p. 275
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