To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and o….

Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes"….

Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as iss….