Model-dependent realism/Bibliography
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Books
- Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean (2011). The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1439192812. An engaging discussion of reality from a viewpoint close to that of "model-dependent reality".
- Hawking SW, Mlodinow L. (2010). The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-90707-0. The book that coined the term model-dependent reality.
- Thomas S Kuhn (1966). The structure of scientific revolutions, 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226458083. A much referenced work about the nature of science. It includes a discussion of the evaluation of scientific theories and how the evolution of such evaluation itself affects the further development of science. An on-line link to this work is found at Thomas S Kuhn (2008). Francis Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender (eds.): American higher education transformed, 1940-2005: documenting the national discourse, Reprint of The structure of scientific revolutions (1966). John Hopkins University Press, pp. 241 ff. ISBN 0226458083.
- Robert Nola (2003). Rescuing reason: a critique of anti-rationalist views of science and knowledge. Springer, pp. 54 ff. ISBN 1402010435. A critique of Kuhn's criteria for a good theory.
Articles
- Mateusz Hohol, Wojciech P. Grygiel (2011). “Stephen Hawking's Ontology of Physical Theories”, B. Brożek, J. Mączka, W.P. Grygiel, eds.: Philosophy in science. Methods and applications. Kraków: Copernicus Center Press (Wyzsza Szkola Informatyki I Zarzadzania z siedziba w Rzeszowie), pp. 105-115. ISBN 8362259256. Amazon link A detailed discussion of Hawking's writings on reality.