SCIENTIFIC REALISM THE TRUTH IN PRAGMATISM*

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SCIENTIFIC REALISM THE TRUTH IN PRAGMATISM*

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Pages:: 171–189

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207355_006

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Abstract

The version of modest scientific realism I favor, real realism, does not depend on any weighty metaphysical doctrines about truth. It presupposes that we typically refer to objects that exist independently of ourselves. I argue that this approach can be reconciled with the insights of pragmatism, and that, in consequence, those inclined to pragmatism should have no quarrel with real realism.

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Scientific Realism and Democratic Society

The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Volume: 101 and Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Online, Volume: 101

Cover Scientific Realism and Democratic Society

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401207355

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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  - Philosophy of Science
  - Social & Political Philosophy
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