Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-474) and index
Empirical realism and scientific realism -- Direct perceptual realism I : the refutation of idealism -- Direct perceptual realism II : non-conceptual content -- Manifest realism I : a critique of scientific essentialism -- Manifest realism II : why gold is necessarily a yellow metal -- The practical foundations of the exact sciences -- Truth and human nature -- Mathematics for humans -- How do we know necessary truths? -- Where there's a will there's a way : causation and freedom.