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Blurring the Boundaries between Realism and Anti-Realism
from Part I - Carnap, Quine, and Logical Empiricism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2023
This essay argues that despite Quine and Kuhn’s reputation for bringing to a close the era of Carnap and logical empiricism as the dominating philosophy of science, Carnap, Quine, and Kuhn all share in rejecting traditional realist and anti-realist analyses of ontology. They all reject a version of what Putnam called metaphysical realism and then also resist making the move to an equally extra-scientific anti-realist position. For all of them, science itself is to be the final arbiter of what there is.
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