Realists include Hiliary Putnam, Mathematics, Matter, and Method:
Philosophical Papers Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975);
Hiliary Putnam, Mind, Language, and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975); Hilary Putnam, "The
'Corroboration' of Theories," in Scientific Revolutions, ed. Ian
Hacking, Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1981), 60-79, Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), and Leplin, Scientific
Realism. Antirealists include Bas C. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image,
Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy Series (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1980), Larry Laudan, Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of
Scientific Growth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977); Larry
Laudan, "A Confutation of Convergent Realism," in Scientific
Realism, ed. Jarrett Leplin
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), Arthur Fine, "The
Natural Ontological Attitude," in Scientific Realism, ed. Jarrett Leplin (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984). For a recent anthology
see Ernan McMullin, Editor, Construction and Constraint: The Shaping of
Scientific Rationality (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988).
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