Contemporary scientific realism : the challenge from the history of science / Timothy D. Lyons, Peter Vickers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Timothy D., author.

Vickers, Peter (Peter John), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

Realism.

Science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 387 pages)

Other Title:

Challenge from the history of science

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Contemporary Scientific Realism' brings together the most important lessons from the history of science to explain scientific realism. The expert contributors introduce and assess topics that redefine what we know about the philosophy of science.

Contents:

1. History and the contemporary scientific realism debate / Timothy D. Lyons and Peter Vickers

Part I. Historical cases for the debate

2. Theoretical continuity, approximate truth, and the pessimistic meta-induction : revisiting the miasma theory / Dana Tulodziecki

3. What can the discovery of boron tell us about the scientific realism debate? / Jonathon Hricko

4. No miracle after all : the Thomson brothers' novel prediction that pressure lowers the freezing point of water, Keith Hutchison

5. From the evidence of history to the history of evidence : Descartes, Newton, and beyond / Stathis Psillos

6. How was Nicholson's proto-element theory able to yield explanatory as well as predictive success? / Eric R. Scerri

7. Selective scientific realism and truth-transfer in theories of molecular structure / Amanda J. Nichols and Myron A. Penner

8. Realism, physical meaningfulness, and molecular spectroscopy / Teru Miyake and George E. Smith

Part II. Contemporary scientific Realism

9. The historical challenge to realism and essential deployment / Mario Alai

10. Realism, instrumentalism, particularism : a middle path forward in the scientific realism debate / Kyle Stanford

11. Structure not selection / James Ladyman

12. The case of the consumption function : structural realism in macroeconomics / Jennifer Jhun

13. We think, they thought : a critique of the pessimistic meta-meta induction / Ludwig Fahrbach

14. The paradox of infinite limits : a realist response / Patricia Palacios and Giovanni Valente

15. Realist representations of particles : the standard model, top down, and bottom up / Anjan Chakravartty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780197555095

0197555098

9780197554630

0197554636

OCLC:

1255236591