Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one
can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology,
scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities,
but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and
geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is
possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do
they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this book Derek Turner
argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences
for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of
the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social
constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude -
and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology.
His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to
philosophers and scientists alike.
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