Introduction

Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard

1-15

Defense of a modest scientific realism

Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont

17-53

Scientific realism

an elaboration and a defence

Howard Sankey

55-79

Scientific objectivity with a human face

Holm Tetens

81-104

On social constructivist accounts of the natural sciences

Barry Barnes

105-136

Experimental success and the revelation of reality

the miracle argument for scientific realism

Martin Carrier

137-161

True is what is considered true

what is considered true is true

Günter Küppers

163-170

Realism and biological knowledge

171-190

Objective facts, subjective experiences, and neuronal constructs

Holk Cruse

191-209

Evidence, logic and moral authority

Georg Elwert

211-236

Some remarks on the hard core of soft sciences

Maurice Godelier

237-246

The mote and the beam

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

247-263

Neither modernist nor postmodernist

a third way

Māra Beller

265-292

From science wars to science worries

some reflections on the scientific conquest of reality

Johannes Roggenhofer

293-305

Science wars?

Jochen Hoock

307-321