Preface

Matthias Kaiser

1-2

Can wholism reconcile the inaccuracy of theory with the accuracy of prediction?

Nancy Cartwright

3-13

The relationship between scientific psychology and common-sense psychology

Kathleen Wilkes

15-39

Realism and relativism in modern physics

Claes Åberg

41-61

Interaction between theory and practice in the surgical treatment of ulcer disease in the period of 1880–1920

Daniel Andersen

63-73

Patterns of theory change in biomedicine

a case study from cardiology

Lie

75-88

Duhem and Cartwright on the truth of laws

Paul Needham

89-109

From rocks to graphs — the shaping of phenomena

Matthias Kaiser

111-133

Realism, relativism, and constructivism

Ilkka Niiniluoto

135-162

How evolutionary theory faces the reality

Matti Sintonen

163-183