The debate on scientific realism results from a tension between the empiricist methodology, which is defining feature of science, and claims to effect that science can unveil fundamental nature reality. What distinguishes realist anti-realist positions not necessarily former take knowledge “at face value” or side scientists in general while latter do not. Rather, realists anti-realists propose ...

We discuss scientific realism from the perspective of modern cosmology, especially primordial cosmology: i.e. the cosmological investigation of the very

Is truth a research goal and regulative ideal that is appropriate for management research? Is realism an appropriate philosophical foundation for management research? This article answers in the affirmative on both of these questions by (a) using historical method to develop the four fundamental tenets of scientific realism, (b) using the historical material to show how some management writers ...

Scientific realism involves two key claims. First, science aims primarily at truth. Second, we can justifiably believe that our successful scientific theories achieve, or at least approximate, this aim. The contemporary scientific realism debate turns on the acceptability of these claims. To acquire a more robust picture of scientific realism, let us identify some of the related theses on which...

When Galileo argued that the familiar patterns of light and shade on the face of the full moon cquld best be accounted for by supposing the moon to possess mountains and %as like those of earth, he was employing a joint mode of inference ind explanation that was by no means new to natural science but which since then has come to be recognized as central to scientific explanati&. In a'retroducti...