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  1. How the laws of physics lie.Nancy Cartwright - 1983 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, the author argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe regularities that exist in nature. Cartwright draws from many real-life examples to propound a novel distinction: that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.
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  • Science, truth, and democracy.Philip Kitcher - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always valuable and necessary--the purists--and those who believe that it invariably serves the interests of people in positions of power. In a daring turn, he rejects both perspectives, working out a more realistic image of the sciences--one (...)
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  • Theory and Evidence.Clark N. Glymour - 1980 - Princeton University Press.
    The Description for this book, Theory and Evidence, will be forthcoming.
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  • The structure and interpretation of quantum mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes - 1989 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    R.I.G Hughes offers the first detailed and accessible analysis of the Hilbert-space models used in quantum theory and explains why they are so successful.
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  • On empirically equivalent systems of the world.Willard van Orman Quine - 1975 - Erkenntnis 9 (3):313-28.
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  • The rise of scientific philosophy.Hans Reichenbach - 1951 - Berkeley,: University of California Press.
    The student of philosophy usually is not irritated by obscure formulations. On the contrary, reading the quoted passage he would presumably be convinced ...
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  • (3 other versions)Theory and Evidence.Clark Glymour - 1981 - Philosophy of Science 48 (3):498-500.
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  • (3 other versions)Theory and Evidence.Clark Glymour - 1982 - Erkenntnis 18 (1):105-130.
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  • (1 other version)The Rise of Scientific Philosophy.HANS REICHENBACH - 1951 - Philosophy 27 (102):269-270.
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  • Real Realism: The Galilean Strategy.Philip Kitcher - 2001 - Philosophical Review 110 (2):151.
    There are almost as many versions of realism as there are antirealists, each ready to supply a preferred characterization before undertaking demolition. Even in the case of scientific realism, my topic here, I recognize two major antirealist themes.
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  • (1 other version)The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes - 1992 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (4):735-736.
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  • (1 other version)The Rise of Scientific Philosophy.Hans Reichenbach - 1951 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2 (8):334-337.
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  • (1 other version)The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes, James T. Cushing & Ernan Mcmullin - 1991 - Synthese 86 (1):99-122.
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  • Real Realism: The Galilean Strategy.Philip Kitcher - 2012 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 101:193-239.
    This essay aims to disentangle various types of anti-realism, and to disarm the considerations that are deployed to support them. I distinguish empiricist versions of anti-realism from constructivist versions, and, within each of these, semantic arguments from epistemological arguments. The centerpiece of my defense of a modest version of realism - real realism - is the thought that there are resources within our ordinary ways of talking about and knowing about everyday objects that enable us to extend our claims to (...)
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  • The Duhemian Argument.Adolf Grünbaum - 1960 - Philosophy of Science 27 (1):75 - 87.
    This paper offers a refutation of P. Duhem's thesis that the falsifiability of an isolated empirical hypothesis H as an explanans is unavoidably inconclusive. Its central contentions are the following: 1. No general features of the logic of falsifiability can assure, for every isolated empirical hypothesis H and independently of the domain to which it pertains, that H can always be preserved as an explanans of any empirical findings O whatever by some modification of the auxiliary assumptions A in conjunction (...)
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  • The Rise of Scientific Philosophy.Norman Malcolm - 1951 - Philosophical Review 60 (4):582.
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  • (1 other version)Folk psychology.P. M. Churchland - 1998 - In Paul M. Churchland & Patricia Smith Churchland (eds.), On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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  • Conceptual Similarity across Sensory and Neural Diversity: The Fodor/Lepore Challenge Answered.Paul M. Churchland - 1998 - Journal of Philosophy 95 (1):5.
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  • Reply to glymor.P. M. Churchland - 1998 - In Paul M. Churchland & Patricia Smith Churchland (eds.), On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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  • The cognitive structure of scientific theories.Ronald N. Giere - 1994 - Philosophy of Science 61 (2):276-296.
    This paper explores a new reason for preferring a model-theoretic approach to understanding the nature of scientific theories. Identifying the models in philosophers' model-theoretic accounts of theories with the concepts in cognitive scientists' accounts of categorization suggests a structure to families of models far richer than has commonly been assumed. Using classical mechanics as an example, it is argued that families of models may be "mapped" as an array with "horizontal" graded structures, multiply hierarchical "vertical" structures, and local "radial" structures. (...)
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  • The desirability of formalization in science.Patrick Suppes - 1968 - Journal of Philosophy 65 (20):651-664.
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  • Saving the Noumena.Lawrence Sklar - 1982 - Philosophical Topics 13 (1):89-110.
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  • The Equivalence Myth of Quntum Mechanics (Addendum).F. A. Muller - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30 (4):543-545.
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  • Determination Underdeterred: Reply to Kukla.Jarrett Leplin & Larry Laudan - 1993 - Analysis 53 (1):8 - 16.
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  • The Concept of the Positron.Norwood Russell Hanson - 1965\ - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 15 (60):352-354.
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  • How to choose between empirically indistinguishable theories.Paul Horwich - 1982 - Journal of Philosophy 79 (2):61-77.
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  • (1 other version)The Concept of the Positron.V. F. Lenzen - 1964 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (1):132-133.
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  • The observational uniqueness of some theories.Mark Wilson - 1980 - Journal of Philosophy 77 (4):208-233.
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