A pragmatic case against pragmatic scientific realism

Journal for General Philosophy of Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-313

  Lee, Wang Yen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constructive empiricism; Instrumentalism; Nicholas Rescher; Pragmatism; Scientific realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049013057     PISSN: 09254560     EISSN: 15728587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10838-007-9041-x     Document Type: Article

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