The bet : truth in science, literature and everyday knowledges
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The bet : truth in science, literature and everyday knowledges
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Ashgate, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references(p.210-214) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume works within the (relatively) new emergent school of thought known as critical realism and further develops some of its ideas. It shares this school of thought's emphasis upon (structured) ontology but differs from it in two ways. First, it begins from a reflection upon the conditions of possibility for producing everyday knowledges rather than upon scientific practice. Second, it attempts to provide its strongest justification through a reflection upon what might be considered its most difficult case - the analysis of non-naturalistic fiction. It thus also provides, as well as an epistemology, a philosophy of science and a theory of reference and meaning, a critique of contemporary (poststructuralist and postmodernist) literary theory and criticism. The disciplinary extension of a stylistic celebration of ambiguity to social scientific analysis and writing comes in for particularly strong criticism.
Table of Contents
- Not so naive realism - basic principles of realism and materialism
- correspondence (side 1) - signifier, signified and referent
- correspondence (side 2) - epistemological levels and ontological complexity
- realism versus conventionalism - socio-historical determinants of scientific practices
- hermeneutical realism
- structure, consciousness and change
- the objectivity of inter-subjective meaning and the ontology of fictional realities
- the turning point
- the literary canon
- science as a value and the value of science.
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