An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism Defending Realism Without Inference to the Best Explanation /

• Main Author: Wright, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 402
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Mathematical physics.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Philosophy of Science.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

This monograph develops a new way of justifying the claims made by science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans, such as atoms and black holes. It details a way of making inferences to the existence and properties of unobservable entities and states of affairs that can be given a proba...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Realism and Reason
• Chapter 2. The Skeptical Arguments Against Realism- 1: Inductive Skepticism
• Chapter 3. The Skeptical Arguments - 2: The Pessimistic Meta-Induction
• Chapter 4. Realism and Inference to the Best Explanation
• Chapter 5. On the Inference to Unobservables
• Chapter 6. Underdetermination and Theory Preference
• Chapter 7. Eddington Inferences in Science - 1: Atoms and Molecules
• Chapter 8. Eddington Inferences in Science - 2: The Size and Shape of the Universe
• Bibliography.