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Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism [Book Review]
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This review provides an outline of the collection New Approaches to Scientific Realism, edited by Wenceslao Gonzalez. In particular, it questions whether the contributions to this edition can claim to be novel. The edition includes an introductory chapter and eighteen texts by well-known philosophers, such as Peter Achinstein, Alexander Bird, Donald Gillies, Theo Kuipers, Alan Musgrave, Thomas Nickles, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Howard Sankey, and John Worrall.Author's Profile
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Novelty in Scientific Realism: New Approaches to an Ongoing Debate.Wenceslao J. Gonzalez - 2020 - In New Approaches to Scientific Realism. De Gruyter. pp. 1-24.
Pragmatic Realism and Scientific Prediction: The Role of Complexity.Wenceslao J. Gonzalez - 2020 - In New Approaches to Scientific Realism. De Gruyter. pp. 251-288.
Scientific Realism and the Conflict with Common Sense.Howard Sankey - 2020 - In Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.), New Approaches to Scientific Realism. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 68-83.
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Going local: a defense of methodological localism about scientific realism.Jamin Asay - 2019 - Synthese 196 (2):587-609.
Do Cognitive Illusions Make Scientific Realism Deceptively Attractive?Thomas Nickles - 2020 - In Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.), New Approaches to Scientific Realism. De Gruyter. pp. 104-130.
How to be realistic about folk psychology.George Graham & Terence Horgan - 1988 - Philosophical Psychology 1 (1):69-81.
Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best Explanation.Alexander Bird - 2020 - In Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.), New Approaches to Scientific Realism. De Gruyter. pp. 48-67.
Interdisciplinarity from the Perspective of Critical Scientific Realism.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 2020 - In Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.), New Approaches to Scientific Realism. De Gruyter. pp. 231-250.
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Scientific explanation and the sense of understanding.J. D. Trout - 2002 - Philosophy of Science 69 (2):212-233.
Understanding the selective realist defence against the PMI.Peter Vickers - 2017 - Synthese 194 (9):3221-3232.
Is There a Valid Experimental Argument for Scientific Realism?Peter Achinstein - 2002 - Journal of Philosophy 99 (9):470.
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