Realism: Deconstructing the debate

Ratio

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-133

  Blackburn, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4043134630     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9329.00180     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Quoted in Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Duty of Genius (New York: The Free Press, 1990), p. 572
2. Arthur Fine, 'Unnatural Attitudes: Realist and Instrumentalist Attachments to Science', Mind 1986
3. Brian Ellis, 'What Science Aims to Do', in Images of Science, eds. P. Churchland and C. Hookway (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985)
4. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970), p. 206
5. Putnam, 'What is Mathematical Truth', in Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975), p. 73
6. See, for example, Putnam, 'What is "Realism"', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 76, 1975-6
7. Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 40
8. Fine, op. cit. p. 155
9. David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature [1739-40], I, iii, 6. In L. A. Selby-Bigge (ed.), rev. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 91
10. van Fraassen, op. cit., p. 8
11. Arthur Fine, op. cit. p. 167
12. 'It should go without saying that, even when acceptance is unqualified, it need not be dogmatic; fervent and total commitment still need not be blind or fanatical'. Van Fraassen, 'Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science', in Images of Science, eds. P. Churchland & C. Hooker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), p. 281
13. Van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, pp. 83-7
14. Van Fraassen, 'Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science', op. cit. p. 255
15. 'Piecemeal Realism' p. 18
16. Rorty, 'Feminism and Pragmatism', Tanner Lecture, University of Michigan, 1990
17. Michael Faraday, 'On the employment of the Inductive Magneto-electric current as a test and measure of magnetic forces', Experimental Researches in Electricity, #3192-3199
18. William James, 'M. Hebert on Pragmatism', The Meaning of Truth (London: Longmans, 1909), p. 242, (1927 edition)
19. E.g. The Meaning of Truth, pp. 73, 75, 206, 242, 273