Science, Action, and RealitySpringer Science & Business Media, 30 sept 1985 - 274 páginas Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any case, it develops a comprehensive philosophical view, one which takes science seri ously as the best method for getting to know the ontological aspects of the world. This view is a kind of scientific realism - causal internal realism, as it is dubbed in the book. This brand of realism is "tough" in matters of ontology but "soft" in matters of semantics and epistemology. An ancestor of the book was published in Finnish under the title Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus (Gaudeamus, 1983). That book is a shortish undergraduate-level monograph. However, as some research-level chapters have been added, the present book is perhaps best regarded as suited for more advanced readers. I completed the book while my stay at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a Visiting Professor under the Exchange Program between the Universities of Wisconsin and Helsinki. I gratefully acknowledge this support. I also wish to thank Juhani Saalo and Martti Kuokkanen for comments on the manuscript and for editorial help. Dr Matti Sintonen translated the Finnish ancestor of this book into English, to be used as a partial basis for this work. His translation was supported by a grant from Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden edistamisvarat. Finally, and as usual, I wish to thank Mrs. |
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PHILOSOPHY AND TRANSCENDENTAL THINKING | 1 |
THE MANIFEST IMAGE AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE | 10 |
II The Stereoscopic View of the World | 14 |
THE MYTH OF THE GIVEN WORLD KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE | 22 |
II What is Wrong with the Myth? | 26 |
SCIENTIFIC REALISM SCIENCES OWN PHILOSOPHY | 37 |
II General Arguments for Scientific Realism | 40 |
APPENDIX ON QUANTUM MECHANICS BELLS INEQUALITIES AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM | 52 |
SOCIAL ACTION AND SYSTEMS THEORY | 141 |
II Weintentions and Social Action | 146 |
III Joint Action and Systems Theory | 151 |
THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE | 168 |
II A Pragmatic Account of Scientific Explanation | 172 |
III What Is Best Explanation? | 175 |
IV Inductive Logic Epistemic Truth and Best Explanation | 189 |
V Scientific Realism and the Growth of Science | 200 |
METHODOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC REALISM | 65 |
II Theoretical Concepts Within Inductive Systematization | 77 |
III Quantificational Depth and the Methodological Usefulness of Theoretical Concepts | 80 |
IV A Scientific Realists View of the Role of Theoretical Concepts | 87 |
INTERNAL REALISM | 95 |
II Causal Internal Realism | 106 |
III Picturing | 115 |
SCIENCE AS THE MEASURE OF WHAT THERE IS | 124 |
II Ontology and the scope of the scientia mensura thesis | 129 |
SCIENCE PRESCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE | 210 |
II Science and Prescience | 215 |
III Magic and Religion | 220 |
IV Pseudoscience | 226 |
NOTES | 236 |
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