Why Science Needs Metaphysics: A Plea for Structural Realism Book

Why Science Needs Metaphysics: A Plea for Structural Realism, This new book by Elie Zahar puts rational metaphysics back at the heart of the scientific enterprise. Zahar shows that the metaphysical doctrine of Structural Realism is central to the progress of science and consequently the positivist separation of phil, Why Science Needs Metaphysics: A Plea for Structural Realism

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Why Science Needs Metaphysics: A Plea for Structural Realism
Written by author Elie Zahar
Published by Open Court Publishing Company, June 2007
This new book by Elie Zahar puts rational metaphysics back at the heart of the scientific enterprise. Zahar shows that the metaphysical doctrine of Structural Realism is central to the progress of science and consequently the positivist separation of phil
Recent scholars have attempted to remake epistemology as a purely subjectivist enterprise. Elie Zahar argues convincingly that rational metaphysics is both relevant and crucial to scientific research and discovery, and presents case studies on the develop

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Introduction     vii
How Respectable Is Metaphysics?     1
The Problem of Induction     5
Protocol or Basic Statements?     29
Falsifiability and Parameter-Adjustment     79
Falsifiability, Duhem-Quine and the Status of Geometry     89
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs (MSRP)     125
Structural Scientific Realism (SSR)     167
Atomism and Structural Realism     207
Einstein or the Essential Unity of Science and Philosophy     223
General Considerations Concerning the Need for Finitely Axiomatizing Mathematics     251
The System [Sigma]     254
Einstein's Anti-inductivism     260
Induction and the Uniformity of Nature     264
Comments on ([Characters not reproducible]H, K, [Delta])J(H, K, [Delta])     271
Poincare's Theorem     272
Bibliography     275
Index     283

Title: Why Science Needs Metaphysics: A Plea for Structural Realism

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Deeply philosophical but backed by a ton of history and examples. Science is fantastic but far from perfect.

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