Purpose This study aims to correct errors in, and comment on the claims made in papers of Rigdon (2022) Henseler Schuberth (2022), tidy up any substantive oversights Cadogan Lee (2022). Design/methodology/approach The discusses clarifies gap between Rigdon’s notion scientific realism metaphysical, semantic epistemological commitments that are broadly agreed be key principles realism. also exami...

Building 3D models is important in many applications, ranging from virtual visits of historical buildings, game and entertainment, to risk analysis in partially collapsed buildings. This task is performed at different scales: city, buildings, indoor environments, objects and using different sensors: cameras, 2D and 3D laser, etc. Moreover, different map representation have been considered: metr...

This paper critically reviews Philip Kitcher’s most recent epistemology of science, real realism. I argue that this view is unstable under different understandings of the term “representation”, and that the arguments offered for the position are either unsound or invalid depending on the understanding employed. Suitably modified those arguments are however convincing in favor of a deflationary ...

Many realist writings exemplify the spirit of ‘recipe realism’. Here I characterise recipe realism, challenge it, and propose replacing it with ‘exemplar realism’. This alternative understanding of realism is more piecemeal, robust, and better in tune with scientists’ own attitude towards their best theories, and thus to be preferred.