THE PRESENT STATE OF REALISM.

This article presents information on the book "Reduction, Time and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences," edited by Richard Healey. The book suggests that it is not fruitful to take sides in the hitherto global debate, whether to adopt a realistic or a positivistic attitude towards scientific theories. By means of this evidential diversity, the unifying theory eventually gob to be bettor confirmed than the conjunction of phenomenal generalisations over the various domains.