The Many Faces of Realism W. F. Trotter winner of the Lee Bennett

winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award

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Deadliest Enemy is high scientific drama

ISBN13: 9781420950304

Students of quantum field theory will find this text of particular value

The Many Faces of Realism W. F. Trotter winner of the Lee Bennett"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend a kind of pragmatic realism in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided by the analysis of a very simple example of what I call 'contextual relativity'. The