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Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
By Christopher Norris
Copyright 2004
216 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Philosophy of language and the realism issue, 2 The expert, the neophyte, and the X-ray tube: Hanson on ‘seeing aspects’, 3 Philosophy of science as ‘history of the present’, 4 Hanson on Wittgenstein, conceptual change, and quantum discontinuity, 5 Saving appearances: the ‘linguistic turn’ and post-empiricist philosophy of science, 6 Quantum mechanics and the limits of empiricism: recent challenges to the orthodox theory, 7 Twin-Earth revisited: modal realism and causal explanation, Notes, Index of names
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Norris, Christopher
