Debates about scientific realism are closely connected to almost everything else in the
philosophy of science, for they concern the very nature of scientific knowledge. Scientific …

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the
world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it. In his book, Stathis Psillos …

Few can imagine a world without telephones or televisions; many depend on computers and
the Internet as part of daily life. Without scientific theory, these developments would not have …

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science.
One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether …

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical
knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the …

This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by
Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. It explores the historical and …

What are the features of a good scientific theory? Samuel Schindler's book revisits this
classical question in the philosophy of science and develops new answers to it. Theoretical …

Coherentism is a central position in the longstanding debate about the structure of epistemic
justification. Coherence is also a main topic in the new, emerging, field of formal …

Debates about scientific realism are closely connected to almost everything else in the
philosophy of science, for they concern the very nature of scientific knowledge. Scientific …

Explaining phenomena is a primary goal of science. Consequently, it is unsurprising that
gaining a proper understanding of the nature of explanation is an important goal of science …