The Monist

Volume 77, Number 1

January 1994




THE ONTOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC REALISM

Advisory Editors: David M. Armstrong and Brian Ellis



John Bigelow
Skeptical Realism

Keith Campbell
Selective Realism in the Philosophy of Physics

Peter Forrest
Why most of us should be Scientific Realists ­ A Reply to Van Fraassen


Herbert Hochberg
Causal Connections, Universals, and Russell's Hypothetico Scientific Realism

Frank Jackson
Metaphysics by Possible Cases

Marc Lange
Scientific Realism and Components: The Case of Classical Astronomy

John O'Leary-Hawthorne
What does Van Fraassen's Critique of Scientific Realism Show?