From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism: On Some Relations Between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (Hardcover, 2000)

Foreword. 1. General Introduction: Epistemological Positions. Part I: Confirmation. 2. Confirmation by the HD-Method. 3. Quantitative Confirmation, and its Qualitative Consequences. 4. Inductive Confirmation and Inductive Logic. Part II: Empirical Progress. 5. Separate Evaluation of Theories by the HD-Method. 6. Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience. Part III: Basic Truth Approximation. 7. Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation. 8. Intuitions of Scientists and Philosophers. 9. Epistemological Stratification of Nomic Truth Approximation. Part IV: Refined Truth Approximation. 10. Refinement of Nomic Truth Approximation. 11. Examples of Potential Truth Approximation. 12. Quantitative Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation. 13. Conclusion: Constructive Realism. Notes. References. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.