Review:
"Makes refreshing and enlightening reading, in comparison to the usual very dry, rarefied discussions of methodology.... Exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing.... [It] demonstrate[s] the virtues of a sober and careful appraisal of the issues concerning realism about scientific theories. I shall be urging those of my students intoxicated by the excesses of social constructivism to study them closer."--Peter Menzies, Times Literary Supplement "Makes refreshing and enlightening reading, in comparison to the usual very dry, rarefied discussions of methodology.... Exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing.... [It] demonstrate[s] the virtues of a sober and careful appraisal of the issues concerning realism about scientific theories. I shall be urging those of my students intoxicated by the excesses of social constructivism to study them closer."--Peter Menzies, Times Literary Supplement "Makes refreshing and enlightening reading, in comparison to the usual very dry, rarefied discussions of methodology.... Exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing.... [It] demonstrate[s] the virtues of a sober and careful appraisal of the issues concerning realism about scientific theories. I shall be urging those of my students intoxicated by the excesses of social constructivism to study them closer."--Peter Menzies, Times Literary Supplement "Makes refreshing and enlightening reading, in comparison to the usual very dry, rarefied discussions of methodology.... Exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing.... [It] demonstrate[s] the virtues of a sober and careful appraisal of the issues concerning realism about scientific theories. I shall be urging those of my students intoxicated by the excesses of social constructivism to study them closer."--Peter Menzies, Times Literary Supplement
About the Author:
Lawrence Sklar is William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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