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Volume 180, Issue 2

May 2011

SCIENTIFIC REALISM QUO VADIS? THEORIES, STRUCTURES, UNDERDETERMINATION AND REFERENCE

Issue Editors:

Gerhard Schurz,
Ioannis Votsis

14 articles in this issue

Editorial introduction to scientific realism quo vadis? Theories, structures, underdetermination and reference
Gerhard Schurz
Ioannis Votsis
EditorialNotes 07 July 2009 Pages: 79 - 85
Structural realism versus standard scientific realism: the case of phlogiston and dephlogisticated air
James Ladyman
OriginalPaper 02 July 2009 Pages: 87 - 101
Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth: phlogiston theory and Newtonian mechanics
Gerhard Schurz
OriginalPaper 16 July 2009 Pages: 103 - 120
Saving the intuitions: polylithic reference
Ioannis Votsis
OriginalPaper 02 July 2009 Pages: 121 - 137
How the growth of science ends theory change
Ludwig Fahrbach
OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 139 - 155
Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
John Worrall
OriginalPaper 09 July 2009 Pages: 157 - 172
Reconsidering the miracle argument on the supposition of transient underdetermination
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
OriginalPaper 08 July 2009 Pages: 173 - 187
Underdetermination as an epistemological test tube: expounding hidden values of the scientific community
Martin Carrier
OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 189 - 204
Metaphysical underdetermination: why worry?
Steven French
OriginalPaper 14 July 2009 Pages: 205 - 221
Withering away, weakly
F. A. Muller
OriginalPaper Open access 11 August 2009 Pages: 223 - 233
Is structural underdetermination possible?
Holger Lyre
OriginalPaper 01 July 2009 Pages: 235 - 247
Carnap on theoretical terms: structuralism without metaphysics
Michael Friedman
OriginalPaper 09 July 2009 Pages: 249 - 263
New life for Carnap’s Aufbau?
Hannes Leitgeb
OriginalPaper 14 July 2009 Pages: 265 - 299
Choosing the realist framework
Stathis Psillos
OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 301 - 316

Volume 180, Issue 2

Editorial introduction to scientific realism quo vadis? Theories, structures, underdetermination and reference

Structural realism versus standard scientific realism: the case of phlogiston and dephlogisticated air

Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth: phlogiston theory and Newtonian mechanics

Saving the intuitions: polylithic reference

How the growth of science ends theory change

Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence

Reconsidering the miracle argument on the supposition of transient underdetermination

Underdetermination as an epistemological test tube: expounding hidden values of the scientific community

Metaphysical underdetermination: why worry?

Withering away, weakly

Is structural underdetermination possible?

Carnap on theoretical terms: structuralism without metaphysics

New life for Carnap’s Aufbau?

Choosing the realist framework

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