Protagoras Among the Physicists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Rosenberg (0000-0003-2276-2412, Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-317 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300018011 |
| OpenAlex | W2118192489 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Scientific realism at least in large measure reflects the conviction that physics limns the true nature of reality; that it is the right metaphysical picture of things. This conviction is in turn a product of the failure of positivism's attempt to expunge metaphysics from the corpus of philosophically respectable activities. Since natural science is objective knowledge of the world par excellence post-positivists have embraced it as the ontology which their predecessors had failed to make unnecessary. Scientific realism is metaphysics, shameless or unashamed
Conviction · Epistemology · Excellence · Logical positivism · Metaphysics · Ontology · Philosophy of science · Political science · Positivism · Realism · Scientific realism · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |