From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism - On Some Relations Between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, (SYNTHESE LIBRARY Volume 287)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780792360865
Subjects: Philosophy Of Science; Realism; Epistemology; Philosophy; Science; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; General; Instrumentalism (Philosophy)
First sentence: We will start by sketching in a systematic order the most important epistemo-logical positions in the instrumentalism-realism debate, viz., instrumentalism, constructive empiricism, referential realism and theory realism.