Abstract

Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism.- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence.- Scientific Objectivity with a Human Face Four Reflections from a Pragmatist Point of View.- On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Sciences.- Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: The Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism.- True is What is Considered True-What is Considered True is True.- Realism and Biological Knowledge.- Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs.- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority Experience and the Erosion of Certainties in Illiterate and Literate Societies.- Some Remarks on the Hard Core of Soft Sciences.- The Mote and the Beam Who's Blind to Whom.- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist-A Third Way.- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Scientific Conquest of Reality.- Science Wars? Historical, Social and Epistemological Aspects of the Sokal-Debate.- Acknowledgements.

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