Table of Contents

Philosophical Arguments.- On Some Formulations of Realism, or How Many Objects Are There in the World?.- Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism Problem.- Realism, Truth and Objectivity.- Queries about Internal Realism.- How to Know What Rises Up Is the Moon? — On the Concept of Realism and the Irrelevancy of Quantum Mechanics to the Debate on Realism vs. Antirealism.- The Reality of Thirdness — A Potential-Pragmatic Account of Laws of Nature.- Tentative Realism.- Cognitive Science — An Experiment in Constructive Realism; Constructive Realism — An Experiment in Cognitive Science.- Realism and General Methodology.- Phenomena.- There Are No Antirealists in the Laboratory.- Can Theories of Chemistry Provide an Argument Against Realism?.- Empirical Versus Theoretical Progress in Science.- Science as Ideology.- Three Stages of Constitution: Historical Changes in the Ontological Status of the Scientific Object.- Scientific Realism versus Common-Sense Realism?.- Metaphysical Realism and the Explanation of the Success of Science.- Is Natural Science Free from Morality?.- Truth and Fiction in Scientific Theory.- Physical Sciences.- Niels Bohr and Realism.- The Bohr-Einstein Debate and the Philosophers’ Debate over Realism versus Anti-Realism.- On the Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen Paradox and the Relevant Philosophical Problems.- On the Neutral Status of QM in the Dispute of Realism vs. Anti-Realism.- Double Structure of Tao Reality.- Realism and Wave-Particle Duality.- Van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism — A Critique.- On Complementarity Reality.- Relational Realism on Reform of the View of Physical Reality and Its Logical Manifestation.- A Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- Rumford’s Experiments on the Materiality of Light — More Heat ThanLight.- Resolving the Realist-Antirealist Dilemma.- The Mathematicized Practical Attitude.- Social and Biological Sciences.- Scientific Realism and Some Peculiarities of Economics.- Realism and Antirealism in Evolutionary Biology.- Anti-Realism and the Complementarity Model of Mind-Brain.- Name Index.