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Three Paradigms Of Scientific Realism : A Truthmaking Account, Jamin Asay
Three Paradigms Of Scientific Realism : A Truthmaking Account, Jamin Asay
Prof. ASAY Jamin, Frederick
This paper investigates the nature of scientific realism. I begin by considering the anomalous fact that Bas van Fraassen's account of scientific realism is strikingly similar to Arthur Fine's account of scientific non-realism. To resolve this puzzle, I demonstrate how the two theorists understand the nature of truth and its connection to ontology, and how that informs their conception of the realism debate. I then argue that the debate is much better captured by the theory of truthmaking, and not by any particular theory of truth. To be a scientific realist is to adopt a realism-relevant account of what makes …