The bet : truth in science, literature, and everyday knowledges /
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| Author / Creator: | Potter, Garry, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999. |
| Description: | xxiii, 217 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Avebury series in philosophy |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3901846 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Not so naive realism: basic principles of realism and materialism
- Correspondence (side 1): signifier, signified and referent
- Correspondence (side 2): epistemological levels and ontological complexity
- Realism versus conventionalism: socio-historical determinants of scientific practices
- Hermeneutical realism
- Structure, consciousness and change
- The objectivity of inter-subjective meaning and the ontology of fictional realities
- The turning point
- The literary canon
- Science as a value and the value of science
- Bibliography
- Index