Contemporary scientific realism : the challenge from the history of science / edited by Timothy D. Lyons and Peter Vickers.

Contributor Lyons, Timothy D. editor.

ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Descriptionvi, 387 : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:History and the contemporary scientific realism debate / Timothy D. Lyons and Peter Vickers -- Part I. Historical Cases for the Debate -- Theoretical Continuity, Approximate Truth, and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction: Revisiting the Miasma Theory / Dana Tulodziecki -- What Can the Discovery of Boron Tell Us About the Scientific Realism Debate? / Jonathon Hricko -- No Miracle After All: The Thomson Brothers' Novel Prediction that Pressure Lowers the Freezing Point of Water / Keith Hutchison -- From the Evidence of History to the History of Evidence: Descartes, Newton, and Beyond / Stathis Psillos -- How Was Nicholson's Proto-Element Theory Able to Yield Explanatory as well as Predictive Success? / Eric R. Scerri -- Selective Scientific Realism and Truth-Transfer in Theories of Molecular Structure / Amanda J. Nichols and Myron A. Penner -- Realism, Physical Meaningfulness, and Molecular Spectroscopy / Teru Miyake and George E. Smith -- Part II. Contemporary Scientific Realism -- The Historical Challenge to Realism and Essential Deployment / Mario Alai -- Realism, Instrumentalism, Particularism: A Middle Path Forward in the Scientific Realism Debate / Kyle Stanford -- Structure not Selection / James Ladyman -- The Case of the Consumption Function: Structural Realism in Macroeconomics / Jennifer Jhun -- We Think, They Thought: A Critique of the Pessimistic Meta-Meta Induction / Ludwig Fahrbach -- The Paradox of Infinite Limits: A Realist Response / Patricia Palacios and Giovanni Valente -- Realist Representations of Particles: The Standard Model, Top Down and Bottom Up / Anjan Chakravartty.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Contemporary Scientific Realism brings together the most important lessons from the history of science to explain scientific realism. The expert contributors introduce and assess topics that redefine what we know about the philosophy of science.

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