CONTENTS -- Introduction -- The Threefold Evaluation of Theories: A Synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (2000) -- CONTENTS -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1. General Introduction: Epistemological Positions -- I. Confirmation -- 2. Confirmation by the HD Method -- 3. Quantitative Confirmation, and its Qualitative Consequences -- 4. Inductive Confirmation and Inductive Logic -- II. Empirical Progress -- 5. Separate Evaluation of Theories by the HD Method -- 6. Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience -- III. Basic Truth Approximation -- 7. Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation -- 8. Intuitions of Scientists and Philosophers -- 9. Epistemological Stratification of Nomic Truth Approximation -- IV. Refined Truth Approximation -- 10. Refinement of Nomic Truth Approximation -- 11. Examples of Potential Truth Approximation -- 12. Quantitative Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation -- 13. Conclusion: Constructive Realism -- Appendix 1: Table of Contents ICR -- Appendix 2: Outline Table of Contents SiS -- Appendix 3: Acronyms -- References -- CONFIRMATION AND THE HD METHOD -- Qualitative Confirmation and the Ravens Paradox -- Gruesome Predicates -- Bayesian H-D Confirmation and Structuralistic Truthlikeness: Discussion and Comparison with the Relevant-Element and the Content-Part Approach -- EMPIRICAL PROGRESS BY ABDUCTION AND INDUCTION -- Lacunae, Empirical Progress and Semantic Tableaux -- Empirical Progress and Ampliative Adaptive Logics -- On a Logic of Induction -- TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY ABDUCTION -- Abduction and Truthlikeness -- Empirical Equivalence, Explanatory Force, and the Inference to the Best Theory -- TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY EMPIRICAL AND NONEMPIRICAL MEANS -- Constructive Realism and Scientific Progress -- Beauty, a Road to the Truth?.

Truthlikeness with a Human Face: On Some Connections between the Theory of Verisimilitude and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- TRUTHLIKENESS AND UPDATING -- Updating Theories -- A Note on Modeling Theories -- REFINED TRUTH APPROXIMATION -- Geometry of Logic and Truth Approximation -- For Better, for Worse: Comparative Orderings on States and Theories -- REALISM AND METAPHORS -- Metaphor and Metaphysical Realism -- On the Relations between (Neo-Classical) Philosophy of Science and Logic -- Bibliography of Theo A.F. Kuipers -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.