Volume 2, Number 11 · July 9, 1964
Science and Truth
By W.V. Quine
Philosophy and Scientific Realism
by J.J.C. Smart
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 160 pp., 25 shillings
The Oxford-style philosopher, so influential nowadays, turns his good ear to the dictates of unspoiled common sense and his other to science. Historians of science itself, not to be outdone, take to belittling the force of evidence and saying how fashions spin the plot. Even leading quantum physicists have been known to impute reality primarily to ordinary things, their experimental equipment, as against the diminutive objects of their theory.
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