Realism and the progress of science
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Realism and the progress of science
（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）
Cambridge University Press, 1981
- : pbk
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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"The basis of this book was a Ph. D. thesis submitted to the University of St. Andrews in 1978"--Preface
Bibliography: p. 130-132
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will interest all those concerned with this basic question in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. A realist account of scientific progress
- 2. The scrutability of reference
- 3. A theory of interpretation
- 4. Cluster theories of reference
- 5. The account in perspective
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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