Realism and the Progress of Science 1st Edition by Peter James Smith ISBN 0521239370 9780521239370

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ISBN 10: 0521239370

ISBN 13: 9780521239370 

Author: Peter James Smith 

This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will interest all those concerned with this basic question in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.

Table of contents:

1. A Realist Account of Scientific Progress

2. The Scrutability of Reference

3. A Theory of Interpretation

4. Cluster Theories of Reference

5. The Account in Perspective

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