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Smoke and Mirrors

James Robert Brown
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Aharonov Bohm Effect
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Auxiliary Function
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Causal Empiricism
chamber
cloud
Darwinian Epistemology
Dimmer
Embedding Space
entities
Epigenetic Rules
epistemology theory
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Feynman Diagram
Gaussian Curvature
God's Eye View
God’s Eye View
Hilbert Space
Ideal Epistemic Conditions
Intermediate Vector Boson
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Local Hidden Variables
Manifest Image
Mathematical Research Programme
mechanics
natural
Natural Kinds
Newtonian Gravitational Field
philosophy of science
potential
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realism versus anti-realism in science
Remote Outcome
scientific methodology
scientific realism
Unforced Agreement
Van Fraassen
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Vector Potential
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Violates
Weights Wound
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415091817
  • Weight: 390g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Feb 1994
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity's best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by numerous critics. James Robert Brown in Smoke and Mirrors fights back against figures such as Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Michael Ruse and Hilary Putnam who have attacked realist accounts of science.
But this volume is not wholly devoted to combating Rorty and others who blow smoke in our eyes; the second half is concerned with arguing that there are some amazing ways in which science mirrors the world. The role of abstraction, abstract objects and a priori ways of getting at reality are all explored in showing how science reflects reality.
Smoke and Mirrors is a defence of science and knowledge in general as well as a defence of a particular way of understanding science. It is of interest to all those who wish or need to know how science works.
About James Robert Brown
James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the philosophy of mathematics, foundations of physics, social relations of science, and thought experiments, as well as more general issues in the philosophy of science. He is the author of two earlier books: The Rational and the Social and The Laboratory of the Mind which are both available from Routledge.

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