The incredible achievements of modern scientific theories lead most of us to embrace scientific realism: the view that our best theories offer us at least rough

The incredible achievements of modern scientific theories lead most of us to embrace scientific realism: the view that our best theories offer us at least rough

This volume argues that history reveals our routine failure to even conceive of well-confirmed alternatives to our scientific theories, and similar alternatives

The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of f