Even as a recalcitrant skeptic, however, one can recognize that some experiences fall into the objective category and thus provide special opportunities for further investigation. This orientation holds that there is an external realm of material objects and physical processes that constitutes the source of objective phenomena. The object realm is regarded as uniquely real. The fruitfulness of the scientific enterprise in ordering objective experience and expanding it into new areas in undeniable. It is perhaps the only area of human endeavor that shows a geometric rate of progress.
Science is clearly on to something.
The success of science, I think, is a continuation of the success of the realist metaphysic in prescientific times. Skepticism notwithstanding, there is some inescapable sense in which the object realm demands our respect. I think many people are content with realism and its sophisticated offspring, scientific investigation. But I changed my mind. A. Internal Problems with the Scientific World-View.