How we might adopt a ‘promiscuous realism’. Why relations between objects, not ‘substances’ might be what is most essential about the world.Why our understanding of reality is complicated by different ‘scales of being’.What philosophy does that science cannot replace.How we reconcile our ‘manifest’ reality to our scientific understanding.How our idea of science develops through radical theory change.The arguments for and against Scientific realism and anti-realism.In this course, James Ladyman, Professor in the Philosophy of Science, gives his unique account of scientific realism, the belief that science addresses the ‘big questions’ of philosophy, and argues that there is no fundamental level of reality that describes the world. Substance, essence, being - for centuries philosophers and scientists have tried to get to the heart of what constitutes the ‘things’ that make up the universe, from kitchen tables to subatomic particles. And throughout the land, everyone was happy until the sun went down and they saw that their daughter was cursed with a frightful enchantment that took hold.
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