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Of Realist Turns: A Conversation with Stathis Psillos
- Fabio Gironi (author)
Chapter of: Speculations 3(pp. 367–425)
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| Title | Of Realist Turns |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A Conversation with Stathis Psillos |
| Contributor | Fabio Gironi (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0010.1.14 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-iii/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Gironi, Fabio |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-09-03 |
| Long abstract | Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Meta-physics in the Department of Phi-losophy and History of Science in the University of Athens, former president of the European Philosophy of Science Association and editor of the review journal Metascience. Psillos is one of the most prominent defenders of scientific realism in contemporary philosophy of science, and he for-mulated his arguments in defense of realism in two impor-tant monographs: Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth(1999) and Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation (2009). Psillos’ investigation begins with the identification of three core theses of scientific realism: The Metaphysical Thesis: the world has a definite and mind-independent natural-kind structure; The Semantic Thesis: scientific theories should be taken at face-value, being truth-conditioned descriptions of their intended domain, both observable and unobservable; The Epistemic Thesis: mature and predictively successful scientific theories are to be considered well-confirmed and approximately true descriptions of the world. |
| Page range | pp. 367–425 |
| Print length | 59 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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