The NOAer's dilemma: Constructive empiricism and the natural ontological attitude

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-322

  Alspector Kelly, Marc ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61449490799     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2003.10716545     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. For example, see A. Musgrave, 'NOA's Ark - Fine for Realism,' The Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1989) 382-98
2. See B. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1980)
3. A. Fine, 'The Natural Ontological Attitude,' in A. Fine, The Shakey Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1986), 128
4. 'Unnatural Attitudes: Realist and Instrumentalist Attachments to Science,' Mind 95 (1986) 149-79, at 149
5. A. Fine, 'Piecemeal Realism,' Philosophical Studies 61 (1991) 79-96, at 94
6. The Scientific Image, esp. ch. 5 and 6
7. See, for example, A. Musgrave, 'Realism versus Constructive Empiricism,' in P. Churchland and C. Hooker, eds., Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1985), 199
8. H. Field, Science Without Numbers: A Defense of Nominalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1980)
9. See R. Boyd, 'Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology,' in P. Asquith, P. Giere, and R. Giere, eds., Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings 1980 (East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association 1981)