The proposal "makes scientific sense," Collins said.
Instrumentl – Making scientific grants easy.
Structural realism is considered by many realists and antirealists alike as the most defensible form of scientific realism.
While many realists and antirealists alike are agreed that the most viable form of scientific realism is structural realism, many others continue to defend other forms of scientific realism.
The geometrical unified field theory program thus appears to be inseparably stitched to a form of scientific realism, recently termed "structural realism", with perhaps even an inspired turn toward Platonism.
In sum, because the constructive empiricist rejects Inference to the Best Explanation, she is not moved by arguments for scientific realism that make use of that rule of inference.
You have to argue for scientific realism against instrumentalism, and that's all philosophical stuff.
This practice appears to cause a problem for scientific realism.
Such nonreductive forms of antirealism have been opposed to both moral realism and scientific realism and have been defended in several other areas besides.
A similar reasoning can be employed to give the so-called "ultimate argument" for scientific realism: theoretical realism is the only assumption that does not make the empirical success of science a miracle (Putnam, 1978; Psillos 1999; cf. criticism in Laudan 1984b).
