Teller, Paul (2018) Referential and Perspectival Realism. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 9 (1). pp. 151-164. ISSN 1913-0465
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Abstract
Ronald Giere (2006) has argued that at its best science gives us knowledge only from different “perspectives,” but that this knowledge still counts as scientific realism. Others have noted that his “perspectival realism” is in tension with scientific realism as traditionally understood: How can different, even conflicting, perspectives give us what there is really? This essay outlines a program (some published, much forthcoming) that makes good on Giere’s idea with a fresh understanding of “realism” that eases this tension.
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