Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal

by Nicholas Rescher

Book Overview

The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027725284
• ISBN13: 9789027725288
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"