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Science, Common Sense and Reality
2010
Social Science Research Network
Scientific realism and the return of metaphysics An interest in metaphysics is now fashionable in a way not seen since before the rise of logical positivism. Diverse factors have contributed to this trend. But in the philosophy of science a significant role has been played by the emergence of scientific realism as the new orthodoxy following the demise of positivism. The positivists initially dismissed the topic of realism as vacuous. But by the late 1950s, the holistic implications of the
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