Scientific Realism Scientific realism is a philosophical view about science that consists of three theses: The metaphysical thesis : The world has a definite and mind-independent structure. The semantic thesis : Scientific theories should be taken at...

Theories and Theoretical Terms In mathematical logic, a theory is the deductive closure of a set of axioms (that is, the set of all propositions deducible from a set of axioms). In the early- and mid- twentieth century, philosophers of science, under...

Scientific realism is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question "what...

KUKLA, Andre. Studies in Scientific Realism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 176 pp. Cloth, $45.00--Epistemological realism is the view that it is logically and nomologically possible for a person to have a warrant for believing in a scientific theory. Anti-realism...

STUDIES IN SCIENTIFIC REALISM. By ANDREA KUKLA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 176. Why be a scientific realist? The predominant motivation is explanationist: we need realism to understand the successfulness of science. Why be an antirealist? The predominant motivation is...

The world is a scrim, left blank for the tints and whorls of the ego. Void an object of its quantum of human aspiration, and you might as well annihilate it. I think, therefore I am. Fine, but even better: I desire, therefore you, he,...