, and all this has important consequences on both the question of scientific realism and the realism/anti-realism debate … also be recognized that the extent to which science succeeds in accomplishing this task is disputable. What kind of realism …, thus, can we actually endorse? Despite what many relativists claim, realism still is an arguable and defendable position …

Tony Lawson makes a compelling case that it is only naive realism that feminist social scientists and philosophers need … preferred epistemological to ontological arguments and, on the other hand, why naive realism, which is indeed problematic, can …

interested in them paradoxically because it overestimates sensory perception. Realism which fairly reflects such issues is an …