Chasing Reality: Strife over Realism

✍ Scribed by Mario Bunge

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 356
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This work defends a realist view of universals, kinds, possibilities, and dispositions, while rejecting contemporary accounts of these that are couched in terms of modal logic and 'possible worlds.'

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Reality and Hylorealism
2. Phenomena, Phenomenalism, and Science
3. Antirealism Today: Positivism, Phenomenology, Constructivism
4. Causation and Chance: Apparent or Real?
5. Behind Screens: Mechanisms
6. From Z to A: Inverse Problems
7. Bridging Fact and Theory
8. To Reality through Fiction
9. Transcendentals Are Of This World
10. From Plato’s Cave to Galileo’s Hill: Realism Vindicated
Appendix: Fact and Pattern
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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