Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Analytical table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Rationality
- Part A Representing
- 1 What is scientific realism?
- 2 Building and causing
- 3 Positivism
- 4 Pragmatism
- 5 Incommensurability
- 6 Reference
- 7 Internal realism
- 8 A surrogate for truth
- Break: Reals and representations
- Part B Intervening
- Further reading
- Index
Break: Reals and representations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Analytical table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Rationality
- Part A Representing
- 1 What is scientific realism?
- 2 Building and causing
- 3 Positivism
- 4 Pragmatism
- 5 Incommensurability
- 6 Reference
- 7 Internal realism
- 8 A surrogate for truth
- Break: Reals and representations
- Part B Intervening
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
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- Information
- Representing and InterveningIntroductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, pp. 129 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983