At its core, it asks what the world is like, independent of our perceptions-and how we can know anything about it. Scientific realism: reality exists independently of us. Scientific realism argues ...

Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) represents a central method in scientific inquiry, wherein the hypothesis that best accounts for the available evidence is provisionally accepted. This approach ...

This paper considers how to best relate the competing accounts of scientific knowledge that Russell and Reichenbach proposed in the 1930s and 1940s. At the heart of their disagreements are two ...