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An introduction to “critical realism” as the reflective transcendence of the deadlock between scientific realism and antirealism. It is shown that by assuming this standpoint many of the puzzling features of the scientific endeavor are clarified (e.g., the belief in a common nature, the use of ordinary referential semantics and theoretical entities, etc.).
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Consult Hilary Putnam’s Reason, Truth and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), especially pp. 22–48; 51-54; 65-66; 217-218. Also see my “Dos Intentos de Mediar el Debate sobre Realismo Científico: Putnam y Fine,” p. 47.
Donald Davidson, “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 47 (1974), reprinted in Inquires into Truth and interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 183-198; see especially pp. 193-195. Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth andHistory, pp. 119-124.
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Sanchez, H.D. (1992). Critical Realism and The Scientific Realism Debate. In: Hardy, L., Embree, L. (eds) Phenomenology of Natural Science. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2622-9_8
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