The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2000 51(4):705-728; doi:10.1093/bjps/51.4.705
© 2000 by British Society for the Philosophy of Science
The present state of the scientific realism debate
S Psillos
In this survey article I try to appraise the present state of the scientific realism debate with an eye to important but hitherto unexplored suggestions and open issues that need further work. In Section 2, I mostly focus on the relationship between scientific realism and truth. In Section 3, I discuss the grounds for realists' epistemic optimism.

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