VARIETIES OF REALISM
by
ROM HARRE
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986)
LOCATING REALISM
- Science as a Communal Practice
- Realism and Antirealism
- Realism Revised
REFERRING, SEARCHING AND FINDING
- Referring as a Material Practice
- Furnishing the World: Referents and Natural Kinds
- Referential Grids
THE METAPHYSICS OF EXPERIENCE
- A Psychological Defence of Common Sense
- The Construction of Facts
- Kinds and Causes: Constraints on a Science of Experience
SCIENCE FOR THE REALM OF POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE
- Policy Realism
- Theory-Families and the Concept of Plausibility
- The Reasonableness of Policy Realism
SCIENCE FOR THE REALM BEYOND EXPERIENCE
- Covariance and Conservation
- Deeper into Realm 3: Quantum Field Theory
- Dispositions and their Groundings
THE PLACE OF LOGIC IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIENCE
- Quantification and Generality: Alternatives to the first-Order Predicate Calculus
- Modality in Scientific Discourses
- Probablitiy Concepts in Science