Introduction

the conceptual knots of the realism debate

Evandro Agazzi

1-17

The debates on scientific realism today

knowledge and objectivity in science

Mario Alai

19-47

The truth of theories and scientific realism

Evandro Agazzi

49-68

Strict empiricism versus explanation in science

Alan Musgrave

71-93

Misdirection and misconception in the scientific realism debates

Bas C. van Fraassen

95-108

Selective scientific realism

representation, objectivity and truth

Michel Ghins

109-131

Robustness, intersubjective reproducibility, and scientific realism

Marco Buzzoni

133-150

Cognitive illusions and nonrealism

objections and replies

Thomas Nickles

151-163

Why do theories fail? the best argument for realism

Gerhard Vollmer

165-175

The epistemological problem of the objectivity of knowledge

Fabio Minazzi

177-206

Scientific realism and the mind-independence of the world

Stathis Psillos

209-226

Structural realism and the toolbox of metaphysics

Steven French

227-243

Retention, truth-content and selective realism

Alberto Cordero

245-256

A scheme-interpretationist and actionistic scientific realism

Hans Lenk

257-276

Semantic definition of truth, empirical theories and scientific realism

Jan Woleński

279-294

Underdetermination, realism and objectivity in quantum mechanics

Dennis Dieks

295-314

Is uniqueness of reality predicted by the quantum laws?

Roland Omnès

315-330

Theories and models

realism and objectivity in cognitive science

Jean-Guy Meunier

331-352

Realism as the methodological strategy in the cognitive science

Vladislav A. Lektorski

353-366

Causation and scientific realism

mechanisms and powers without essentialism

Amparo Gómez

367-383

Objectivity in mathematics

the structuralist roots of a pragmatic realism

Gerhard Heinzmann

385-393

Mathematical truth revisited

mathematics as a toolbox

Reinhard Kahle

395-406