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Reclaiming Reality

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-25 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Language: en
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Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism

Authors: Christopher Norris
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Psychology Press

In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through
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Resisting Scientific Realism

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation

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Categories: Philosophy
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Pages: 256

A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How

Authors: J. Adam Carter
Categories: Philosophy
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We know facts, but we also know how to do things. To know a fact is to know that a proposition is true. But does knowing how to ride a bike amount to knowledge
A Critical Introduction to Formal Epistemology
Language: en
Pages: 224

A Critical Introduction to Formal Epistemology

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Critical Scientific Realism
Language: en
Pages: 356

Critical Scientific Realism

Authors: Ilkka Niiniluoto
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-09 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that th
Scientific Realism
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Scientific Realism

Authors: N. Rescher
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-07-31 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold i