Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism

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Christopher Norris, \"hilosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism (Critical Realism-Interventions)\"
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN 10: 0415327865 | 2003 | PDF | 272 pages | 1.4 MB

In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent and scientifically informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and philosophy of science.

Norris devotes much of his discussion to some of the most prominent and widely influential source-texts of anti-realism. Also included are the sophisticated versions of verificationism developed by thinkers such as Michael Dummett and Bas van Fraassen. Central to Norris's argument is a prolonged engagement with the once highly influential but nowadays neglected work of Norwood Russell Hanson.

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