Philosophy and Scientific Realism

Copyright......Page 1
Contents......Page 2
Preface......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Philosophy and World View......Page 6
Philosophy and the Elimination of Nonsense......Page 8
Philosophy as more than the Elimination of Nonsense......Page 13
Synoptic Philosophy and Man's Place in Nature......Page 18
Two Sorts of Phenomenalism......Page 21
Phenomenalism about Macroscopic Objects......Page 23
Phenomenalism about Sub-microscopic Objects......Page 32
The Nature of the Biological Sciences......Page 55
Psychology......Page 66
Is Physicalism Adequate?......Page 69
Criticisms of Two Philosophical Views about Colours......Page 71
Positive Philosophical Theory of Colour......Page 80
Other Secondary Qualities......Page 90
The Limitations of Behaviouristic Analysis......Page 93
The Brain Process Theory......Page 97
Men and Mechanisms......Page 111
Mechanisms and Machines......Page 112
Problem-solving Ingenuity......Page 116
The Argument from Godel......Page 121
An Inductive Machine......Page 124
Creativity and Freedom......Page 125
Anthropocentric Cosmologies......Page 136
The Space-Time World......Page 137
The Temporal Asymmetry of the World......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 153
Two Sorts of Anthropocentricity......Page 154
Materialism and Values......Page 157
E......Page 162
M......Page 163
S......Page 164
Z......Page 165