This book offers a close and rigorous examination of the arguments
for and against scientific realism and introduces key positions in
the scientific realism/antirealism debate, which is one of the
central debates in contemporary philosophy of science. On the one
hand, scientific realists argue that we have good reasons to
believe that our best scientific theories are approximately true
because, if they were not even approximately true, they would not
be able to explain and predict natural phenomena with such
impressive accuracy. On the other hand, antirealists argue that the
success of science does not warrant belief in the approximate truth
of our best scientific theories. This is because the history of
science is a graveyard of theories that were once successful but
were later discarded. The author eventually settles on a
middle-ground position between scientific realism and antirealism
called "relative realism".
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