Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.

Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-inde

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will enco

Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the The Routledge handbook of Scientific Realism covers the following central topics: th