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 realism".

• 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 realism.

• 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 an earlier edition of 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 (1962). 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.
• Christopher Norris (Jan/Feb 2013). Hawking contra Philosophy. Philosophy Now: a magazine of ideas. A defense of philosophy against Hawking's statement that "philosophy is dead". (The Grand Design, p. 6.)