
David Papineau on Scientific Realism
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The Importance of Track Record in Science
The difficulty, of course, is finding out which are good and which are dodgy. So you're saying that we should be a skeptic about some areas of science and a realist about others? Absolutely. I think that I'm kind of giving up on what I promised you earlier, scientific realism. Well, that's too bad because it seems to me the positional outline is obviously the sensible one.
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