Scientific realism
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Scientific realism is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question "how is the success of science to be explained?" The debate over what the success of science involves centers primarily on the status of unobservable entities apparently talked about by scientific theories. Generally, those who are scientific realists assert that one can make reliable claims about unobservables (viz., that they have the same ontological status) as observables.
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See also
- Anti-realism
- Constructivist epistemology
- Constructive empiricism
- Confirmation holism
- Critical realism
- Entity realism
- Instrumentalism
- Naïve realism
- Pessimistic induction
- Scientific materialism
- Structural realism
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