Podobnosť realizmu Alberta Einsteina a Hilaryho Putnama.

The aim of this paper is to examine the development of philosophical presuppositions of Albert Einstein's views on reality, to find out what interpretation framework is suitable to express his understanding of reality, and to compare his views with that of Hilary Putnam. I have decided to make the comparison with Putnam due to the fact that their conceptions seem to be similar. I will attempt to defend the possibility to interpret Einstein's views using a different conceptual framework than his own. Putnam always held some form of realism, but when he was accepting metaphysical realism, he was rejecting semantic antirealism, and vice versa. When accepting naturalistic realism, he simultaneously held conceptual relativism. Einstein espoused the reality of atoms and fields, which means he held some form of metaphysical realism. Since 1908, under the influence of Duhem, he held the belief about the underdetermination of scientific theories, that enabled him to accept several incompatible theories that were, however, in accordance with the facts. Similarly to Putnam in his stage of naturalistic realism, Einstein is an example of maintaining realism while using conceptual relativism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]