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1 Reality and Hylorealism
Page 24-48
-----3 The World: The Totality of Facts or the Maximal Thing?
Page 35-35
-----4 Enter the Knower
Page 36-38
-----5 Subject/Object Separability
Page 39-40
-----6 Materialism
Page 41-41
-----7 Reality
Page 42-43
-----8 Realism
Page 44-45
-----9 Objectivity and Impartiality
Page 46-47
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 48-48
2 Phenomena, Phenomenalism, and Science
Page 49-70
-----1 Phenomenon and Noumenon
Page 50-51
-----2 Primary and Secondary Properties
Page 52-52
-----3 Phenomenalisms: Ontological and Epistemological
Page 53-54
-----4 Qualia in Materialism
Page 55-55
-----5 From the Scientific Revolution to Locke
Page 55-57
-----6 The Counter-Revolution, Phase 1: Berkeley
Page 58-61
-----7 The Counter-Revolution, Phase 2: Hume
Page 62-64
-----8 The Counter-Revolution, Phase 3: Kant
Page 65-65
-----9 Kant Concluded: Neither Nature nor God
Page 66-67
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 68-70
3 Antirealism Today: Positivism, Phenomenology, Constructivism
Page 71-102
-----1 Logical Positivism
Page 74-77
-----2 Worldmaking
Page 78-81
-----3 Phenomenalism and Quanta
Page 82-86
-----4 Ptolemy Redux
Page 87-87
-----5 To Phenomena through Noumena
Page 88-91
-----6 Interlude: Reduction
Page 92-93
-----7 Psychological and Social Appearances
Page 94-96
-----8 Scientists in the Crib?
Page 97-99
-----9 Science and Technology Are Realist
Page 100-101
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 102-102
4 Causation and Chance: Apparent or Real?
Page 103-133
-----1 Causation
Page 105-108
-----2 Chance: Types
Page 109-114
-----3 Objective Probability
Page 115-117
-----4 Probability in Science and Technology
Page 118-120
-----5 Chance as Ignorance
Page 121-123
-----6 Uncertainty
Page 124-124
-----7 Bayesianism Is Confused
Page 125-125
-----8 Beliefs Are Not Bayesian
Page 126-128
-----9 Bayesianism Is Hazardous
Page 129-132
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 133-133
5 Behind Screens: Mechanisms
Page 134-159
-----1 A Handful of Examples
Page 134-138
-----2 System and Systemism
Page 139-143
-----3 Mechanism
Page 144-146
-----4 Causal and Stochastic Mechanisms
Page 147-147
-----5 Mechanism and Function
Page 148-148
-----6 Mechanism and Law
Page 149-151
-----7 Guessing Mechanisms
Page 152-153
-----8 Explanation: Subsumptive and Mechanismic
Page 154-156
-----9 Realism versus Descriptivism
Page 157-157
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 158-159
6 From Z to A: Inverse Problems
Page 160-179
-----1 Preliminary Sample
Page 162-162
-----2 The Direct–Inverse Relation: Generalities
Page 162-164
-----3 Logic and Mathematics
Page 165-166
-----4 Interlude: Induction
Page 167-167
-----5 Mathematical Problems to Find and Problems to Prove
Page 168-169
-----6 Astronomy and Microphysics
Page 170-171
-----7 Reading Diffraction Patterns
Page 172-173
-----8 Invertibility
Page 174-176
-----9 Inverse Probabilities
Page 177-177
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 178-179
7 Bridging Fact and Theory
Page 180-202
-----1 Induction Again
Page 180-181
-----2 Abduction Again
Page 182-182
-----3 Biology: Evolution
Page 183-184
-----4 Medicine: From Symptoms to Diagnosis
Page 185-185
-----5 Psychology: Behind Behaviour
Page 186-187
-----6 Social Studies: From Individual to Society and Back
Page 188-189
-----7 Figuring Out Social Mechanisms
Page 190-192
-----8 Reverse Engineering
Page 193-196
-----9 Bridging Theory to Fact
Page 197-198
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 199-202
8 To Reality through Fiction
Page 203-232
-----1 The Need for Abstraction
Page 204-205
-----2 Fictionism
Page 206-207
-----3 Four Kinds of Truth
Page 208-209
-----4 Mathematics Is Ontologically Neutral
Page 210-212
-----5 Mathematics, Brains, and Society
Page 213-214
-----6 How to Make Ontological Commitments
Page 215-217
-----7 Responding to Some Objections
Page 218-219
-----8 Conventionalism and Physicalism
Page 220-223
-----9 Metaphysical Fictions: Parallel Worlds
Page 224-228
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 229-232
9 Transcendentals Are Of This World
Page 233-264
-----1 Universal
Page 233-237
-----3 Possibility
Page 241-242
-----4 A Surfeit of Worlds
Page 243-246
-----5 Many-Worlds Metaphysics Is Inexact
Page 247-250
-----6 Counterfactuals
Page 251-253
-----7 Disposition
Page 254-258
-----8 Space and Time
Page 259-261
-----9 Free Will and Liberty
Page 262-263
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 264-264
10 From Plato's Cave to Galileo's Hill: Realism Vindicated
Page 265-297
-----1 Ontological Realism: Brain and History
Page 266-268
-----2 Epistemological Realism: Kicking and Exploring
Page 269-271
-----3 Semantic Realism: Reference and Correspondence
Page 272-277
-----4 Methodological Realism: Reality Check and Scientism
Page 278-280
-----5 Axiological Realism: Objective Values
Page 281-281
-----6 Ethical Realism I: Moral Facts and Moral Truths
Page 282-287
-----7 Ethical Realism II: Testability of Moral Norms
Page 288-291
-----8 Practical Realism: Efficiency and Responsibility
Page 292-293
-----9 Scientific Hylorealism
Page 294-294
-----10 Concluding Remarks
Page 295-297
Appendix: Fact and Pattern
Page 298-317
-----1 Thing, Property, and Predicate
Page 299-301
-----2 State and State Function
Page 302-304
-----3 State Space and Event
Page 305-307
-----4 Process
Page 308-309
-----5 Objective Pattern and Law-Statement
Page 310-311
-----6 Lawful State Space
Page 312-314
-----7 Concluding Remarks
Page 315-317
INDEX OF NAMES
Page 342-349
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Page 350-357
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