A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable

ISBN: 9780521130097 出版年：2007 页码：271 Anjan Chakravartty Cambridge University Press

Part I. Scientific Realism Today: 1. Realism and antirealism, metaphysics and empiricism 2. Selective scepticism: entity realism, structural realism, semirealism 3. Properties, particulars and concrete structures Part II. Metaphysical Foundations: 4. Causal realism and causal processes 5. Dispositions, property identity and laws of nature 6. Sociability: natural and scientific kinds Part III. Theory Meets World: 7. Representing and describing: theories and models 8. Approximate truths about approximate truth.