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Title Scientific realism / edited, with an introduction, by Jarrett Leplin
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]
©1984

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Description vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Campus ; 323
Campus (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 323
Contents A case for scientific realism / Ernan McMullin -- Current status of scientific realism / Richard N. Boyd -- Natural ontological attitude / Arthur Fine -- Path from data to theory / Ronald Laymon -- What kind of explanation is truth? / Michael Levin -- What is realism? / Hilary Putnam -- Experimentation and scientific realism / Ian Hacking -- Explanation and realism / Clark Glymour -- Truth and scientific progress / Jarrett Leplin -- Confutation of convergent realism / Larry Laudan -- To save the phenomena / Bas C. van Fraassen
Analysis Scientific realism
Notes Includes bibliographies and indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes
Subject Realism.
Science -- Philosophy.
Author Leplin, Jarrett.
LC no. 84040311
ISBN 0520051556 (hard)
0520053265 (paperback)