Critical realism and the scientific realism debate

Sánchez

pp. 157-171

in: Lee Hardy, Lester Embree (eds), Phenomenology of natural science, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

An introduction to "critical realism" as the reflective transcendence of the deadlock between scientific realism and antirealism. It is shown that by assuming this standpoint many of the puzzling features of the scientific endeavor are clarified (e.g., the belief in a common nature, the use of ordinary referential semantics and theoretical entities, etc.).