Middle path realism and anti-realism: Timothy D. Lyons, Peter Vickers (Eds.): Contemporary scientific realism: The challenge from the history of science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 387 pp, $105 HB.

Others gesture at a "middle path" toward which sophisticated realists and anti-realists/instrumentalists may be converging, like the contributions by Smith and Miyake, Stanford, and, somewhat, Chakravartty. Second, Ladyman identifies three related problems that are relevant to both realists/anti-realists and have to do with (a) idealization, (b) scale, and (b) how ontologies of science relate. Adopting commensurability, the Maddy/Wilson principle, and a historically motivated moderate particularism leaves middle path realists/anti-realists (henceforth, realists/anti-realists) with other issues to navigate. [Extracted from the article]