Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780860918530
Description: This book starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary philosophy of science which stems from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a systematic exposition of scientific realism in the form of transcendental realism. This highlights a conception of science as explanatory of a structured differentiated and changing world.