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Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science

Scientific Realism and Commonsense

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Editors:
  1. Steve Clarke

    1. Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia

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  2. Timothy D. Lyons

    1. Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 17)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Realism through Manipulation, and by Hypothesis

    • Robert Nola
    Pages 1-23

  3. Chalmers’ Defence of Scientific Realism Against Cartwright

    • Steve Clarke
    Pages 25-38

  4. Scientific Realism and the Empirical Nature of Methodology: Bayesians, Error Statisticians and Statistical Inference

    • Harold Kincaid
    Pages 39-62

  5. Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Meta-Modus Tollens

    • Timothy D. Lyons
    Pages 63-90

  6. Miracle or Mystery? Hypotheses and Predictions in Rankine’s Thermodynamics

    • Keith Hutchison
    Pages 91-120

  7. Putnam’s No-Miracle Argument: A Critique

    • Michel Ghins
    Pages 121-137

  8. Some Surprising Phenomena and Some Unsatisfactory Explanations of Them

    • John Wright
    Pages 139-155

  9. Marks of Irrationality

    • Lisa Bortolotti
    Pages 157-173

  10. Implications of Inquiry: A Pragmatist View of the Scientific and Manifest Image

    • Herman C. D. G. De Regt
    Pages 175-192

  11. Human Agency, Realism and the New Essentialism

    • Brian Ellis
    Pages 193-207

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-215
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About this book

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of thematically-connected essays edited by scholars based in Australia or New Zealand with special expertise in that particular area. In each volume, a majority ofthe contributors are from Australia or New Zealand. Contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out, however, and are actively encouraged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question. Earlier volumes in the series have been welcomed for significantly advancing the discussion of the topics they have dealt with. I believe that the present volume will be greeted equally enthusiastically by readers in many parts of the world. R. W. Home General Editor Australasian Studies in History And Philosophy of Science viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The majority of the papers in this collection had their origin in the 2001 Australasian Association for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science annual conference, held at the University of Melbourne, where streams of papers on the themes of scientific realism and commonsense were organised.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia

    Steve Clarke

  • Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA

    Timothy D. Lyons

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science

  • Book Subtitle: Scientific Realism and Commonsense

  • Editors: Steve Clarke, Timothy D. Lyons

  • Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2862-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0831-3Published: 31 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6107-2Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2862-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1871-7381

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 216

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Ontology, Metaphysics

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