Realizmo Ir Antirealizmo Ginèas: Mokslinës Teorijos Ir Tiesos Santykis
Realism versus Antirealism: Scientific Theory and Truth

Summary/Abstract: This work focuses on the relation between theory and truth in the context of scientific realism debate. How far can the science go exploring unobservable entities? What should we think about modern scientific theories? Do they reveal the truth about the world's structure? These are the main questions that this work tries to answer. As it is well known, scientific realists and their opponents - antirealists – are also concerned about these questions. Therefore, the two most popular philosophical views of antirealists are discussed in this work. The first view is known as instrumentalism, while the second – constructive empiricism. Both of them oppose the position of scientific realism. This work also presents the main arguments of the debate - the distinction between the observable and unobservable entities, underdetermination thesis, Putnam's non-miracles argument and pessimistic induction.

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