...a wideranging wellwritten and highly readable study of scientificrealism in relation to both scientific practice and such philosophical issuesas metaphysical... » 

...a wideranging wellwritten and highly readable study of scientificrealism in relation to both scientific practice and such philosophical issuesas metaphysical realism and epistemological fallibilism. The book is especiallygood in interpreting the significance of scientific progress it alsodelineates important aspects of scientific method and clarifies the interactionbetween theory and experiment. Rescher lucidly explicates major positionsdraws important distinctions and develops instructive examples. Hisintegration of methodological objectivity with ontological fallibilism is bothdistinctive and impressive. Robert Audi University of NebraskaLincoln May1987 «