The Explanationist Defense of Scientific Realism

New York: Garland (2001)
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Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandonment of naturalist and externalist strategies.

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Q175.32.R42.G36 2001

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Dorit Ganson
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