This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will enco

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it .

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-i

This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition, pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of