Table of Contents

1: Philosophy and Transcendental Thinking.- 2: The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image.- I Conceptualizing the World.- II The Stereoscopic View of the World.- 3: The Myth of the Given World, Knowledge, and Language.- I The Myth and its Constituents.- II What is Wrong with the Myth?.- 4: Scientific Realism — Science’s Own Philosophy.- I Kant and Scientific Realism.- II General Arguments for Scientific Realism.- Appendix on Quantum Mechanics, Bell’s Inequalities, and Scientific Realism.- 5: Methodological Arguments for Scientific Realism.- I The Theoretician’s Dilemma and Scientific Realism.- II Theoretical Concepts within Inductive Systematization.- III Quantificational Depth and the Methodological Usefulness of Theoretical Concepts.- IV A Scientific Realist’s View of the Role of Theoretical Concepts.- 6: Internal Realism.- I Metaphysical and Internal Realism.- II Causal Internal Realism.- III Picturing.- 7: Science as the Measure of What There is.- I On the Various Kinds of Scientific Realism.- II Ontology and the Scope of the scientia mensura-thesis.- 8: Social Action and Systems Theory.- I The Conceptual Nature of Social Action.- II We-intentions and Social Action.- III Joint Action and Systems Theory.- 9: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.- I Truth and Explanation in the Context of Scientific Growth.- II A Pragmatic Account of Scientific Explanation.- III What is Best Explanation?.- IV Inductive Logic, Epistemic Truth, and Best Explanation.- V Scientific Realism and the Growth of Science.- 10: Science, Prescience, and Pseudoscience.- I The Method of Science.- II Science and Prescience.- III Magic and Religion.- IV Pseudoscience.- Notes.- Name Index.