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Scientists refuse to explore the philosophical foundations of their discipline and the problems attending to it for the same reasons that religious adherents dislike having the central tenets of their belief system challenged by sustained, philosophical inquiry. It's just human nature, very non-myst...

Generally speaking, scientists are narrowly trained technicians who are largely innocent of the philosophical foundations of their discipline. This fact about the scientist's attitude towards philosophy is an absolute necessity . If scientists worried all day about the problem of demarcation, or the...

The single greatest obstacle to my acceptance of scientific realism is closely related to the underdetermination of theories by evidence. Just so we're on the same page, here is a general statement of the epistemic thesis for scientific realism: SR : Our mature and predictively successful scientific...