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K. Brad Wray: Resisting Scientific Realism

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, xii + 224 pp, £75.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9781108231633

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  1. I draw on Kitcher’s (1993) distinction between deep and shallow explanations here.

  2. See also French (2017) who urges those at the shallow end on a continuum of degrees of metaphysical commitment to venture into deeper waters.

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van der Merwe, R. K. Brad Wray: Resisting Scientific Realism. J Gen Philos Sci 51, 637–641 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09495-1

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