Abstract
The 1960s saw many revolutions, worldwide, and some of that epoch’s revolutionary spirit manifested itself in philosophy of science, with strong reactions against the dominant “received view” of Logical Positivism. Scientific realism emerged to dispute ontology, Kuhn single-handedly turned our eyes back to history of science, and the semantic approach replaced the methodological framework for philosophers of science. The Logical Positivist revolution had just about reached age 50 at the time; today the semantic approach is about 50 years old as well, and faced with a plethora of new developments. I will discuss how the semantic approach was born, and its fortunes and misfortunes, from its beginnings to approximately 1990, with just a brief look at what has been happening since then.
