HACKINGS MANIPULATIVER REALISMUS UND FINES NATÜRLICHE ONTOLOGISCHE EINSTELLUNG: EIN KRITISCHER VERGLEICH VON STÄRKEN UND SCHWÄCHEN BEIDER POSITIONEN
HACKING’S „MANIPULATIVE REALISM“ AND FINE’S „NATURAL ONTOLOGICAL ATTITUDE“: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF BOTH POSITIONS

Summary/Abstract: This work relates to the so-called Realism-Antirealism debate, which is one of the very important topics of present debates in the field of philosophy of science. In the context of the analysis, the argumentation of I. Hacking will be here critically examined, who by his „Manipulative Realism" offers an interesting and innovative defence of scientific realism. In the third and fourth part of the essay a brief discussion is led on the possibility of overcoming the above-mentioned debate, which in the NOA-theory („The Natural Ontological Attitude") of A. Fine will find an important start-point.

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