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(2018) An epistemic foundation for scientific realism, Dordrecht, Springer.
Scientific Realism with respect to a theory is, at least as a first approximation, the doctrine that the entities – including the unobservable entities – postulated by the theory exist and behave (more or less) as the theory says they do. It is an ontological or, perhaps, metaphysical thesis. A philosopher who is a Scientific Realist about, for example, a theory of electrons might hold that electrons exist and behave more or less as the theory says they do.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02218-1_1
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Wright, J. (2018). Introduction: realism and reason, in An epistemic foundation for scientific realism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-6.
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