Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018): The Future of the Scientific Realism Debate: Contemporary Issues Concerning Scientific Realism

Published: 2018-02-15

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Focused Discussion

Editor's Introduction

Curtis Forbes

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What is Scientific Realism?

Anjan Chakravartty, Bas C. van Fraassen

12-25
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Feyerabendian Pragmatism

Jeff Foss

26-30
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Realism for realistic people

Hasok Chang

31-34
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Engaging philosophically with the history of science: two challenges for scientific realism

Theodore Arabatzis

35-37
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Gravitational Waves and Scientific Realism

Harry Collins

38-41
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Motives for Research

Arthur Fine

42-45
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Beyond Realism and Antirealism ---At Last?

Joseph Rouse

46-51
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BEWARE OF Mad DOG Realist

Alan Musgrave

52-64
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A Dilemma for the Scientific Realist

Howard Sankey

65-67
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Tolstoy’s argument: realism and the history of science

Stathis Psillos

68-77
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A Fond Farewell to "Approximate Truth"?

P. Kyle Stanford

78-81
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Why the Realism Debate Matters for Science Policy: The Case of the Human Brain Project

Jamie Craig Owen Shaw

82-98
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Scientific Realism Again

James Ladyman

99-107
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Scientific Realism and the History of Chemistry

Robin Hendry

108-117
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Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?

Peter Vickers

118-121
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How Deployment Realism withstands Doppelt's Criticisms

Mario Alai

122-135
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Being realistic: the challenge of theory change for a metaphysics of scientific realism

Kerry McKenzie

136-142
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The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the Contemporary Realism/Anti-realism Debate

K. Brad Wray

143-145
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Four Challenges to Epistemic Scientific Realism—and the Socratic Alternative.

Timothy D Lyons

146-150
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Referential and Perspectival Realism

Paul Teller

151-164
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Theoretical practices that work: those that mimic Nature’s own

Nancy Cartwright

165-173
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Machine Learning and the Future of Realism

Giles Hooker, Cliff Hooker

174-182
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Reviews

Rebecca Lemov. Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity. 354pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Jennifer Fraser

183-185
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Douglas A. Vakoch and Matthew F. Dowd. The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages

Andrew Oakes

186-188
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Melinda Baldwin. Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal

Andrew Oakes

189-191
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Andre Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber, eds. Scholars in Action: The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century, Volumes 1 and 2.

Kristen M. Schranz

192-195
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