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This chapter summarizes the virtues of measured realism about the social and behavioral sciences, and reviews its comparative advantages over antirealism as well as minimal (local) and robust (global) variants of scientific realism. It also makes a projection about the fate of the naturalistic research begun here. This projection is based on track record of inference to the best explanation, and the current state of understanding of natural laws and causation.
Keywords: measured realism; natural laws; causation; naturalistic research; minimal realism; robust realism
Chapter. 3126 words.
Subjects: Metaphysics
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