Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Recent Debate on Scientific Realism -- 1. Scientific Realism and Its Relation to Common Sense -- 1.1 Key Arguments Surrounding Scientific Realism -- 1.2 Scientific Realism without Common Sense Realism? -- 2. Entity Realism -- 2.1 From Theories to Entities -- 2.2 Is Manipulability an Adequate Criterion of Reality? -- 2.3 From Manipulation to Explanation -- 3. NOA and the Vices of the Realism Debate -- 3.1 In Defense of Interpretation -- 3.2 The Principle of Fairness -- 3.3 NOA, Entity Realism, and the Homely Line -- Part II. Causal Realism -- 4. Causal vs. Theoretical Warrant -- 4.1 Criterion 1: Non-redundancy -- 4.2 Criterion 2: Material Inference -- 4.3 Criterion 3: Empirical Adequacy -- 4.4 Causal Realism's Advantages over Entity Realism -- 5. Causal Warrant for the Neutrino: A Case Study -- 5.1 Bohr and Pauli on Beta Decay -- 5.2 The Impact of Fermi's Theory and the Need for Direct Detection -- 5.3 The Detection of the Neutrino by Reines and Cowan -- 6. The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives -- 6.1 Previous Attempts to Undermine the PUA -- 6.2 Causal Knowledge as a Criterion for the Realist -- 6.3 Causal Realism, Unconceived Alternatives, and the Atomic Hypothesis -- Part III. The Quantum Challenge -- 7. Causal Realism in the Context of Bell-Type Experiments -- 7.1 Bell-Experiments: Causal Warrant for Superluminal Causation -- 7.2 Causal Realism and Underdetermination in Quantum Mechanics -- 7.3 Some Experimental Constraints on Explanations for EPR -- 8. Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Metaphysics of Entanglement? -- 8.1 Delayed Choice in the Double-Slit Experiment -- 8.2 The Quantum Eraser -- 8.3 Delayed-Choice Entanglement Swapping -- 9. Particle Physics without Particles? On Causal Realism in Quantum Field Theory.

9.1 Against Localizability: Malament's Theorem and Its Generalizations -- 9.2 Against Countability: Unruh Effect and Interacting Fields -- 9.3 Defending Localizability and Countability -- 9.4 Concluding Remarks on Realism, Fundamentalism, and QFT -- Bibliography -- Index.