Realism in the sciences
Subtitle: proceedings of the Ernan McMullin Symposium, Leuven, 1995
By: edited by Igor Douven and Leon Horsten.
Contributors: Douven, Igor.; Horsten, Leon.; Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ).
Series: Louvain philosophical studies -- 10
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Leuven, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Realism.; Science -- Philosophy.
Other titles: Proceedings of the Ernan McMullin Symposium
Notes: "The symposium took place at the Center for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language of the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, on 10 and 11 March 1995."--P. [7]

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Epistemic virtue and theory appraisal / Ernan McMullin; value: In-world realism vs. reflective realism / Diderik Batens and Joke Meheus; value: Natural kinds, scientific methodology, and underdetermination / Igor Douven; value: The second best approach to the problem of scientific realism : rationality of belief / Herman de Regt; value: Efficient truth approximation by the instrumentalist, rather than the falsificationist, method / Theo Kuipers; value: The view from somewhere in nowhere / Roger Vergauwen; value: Empiricism and the manifest image / Jaap van Brakel; value: Bounded incommensurability : Kuhn ab omni naevo vindicatus? / Paul Cortois; value: Quantum mechanics and underdetermination / James Cushing; value: Mathematical experiments and mathematical pictures / Jean Paul Van Bendegem.