Perturbing Realism

Abstract

Effective Realism marshals ideologies and technologies of our best current physics— the interacting quantum field theories making up the Standard Model—to articulate a selective realism resistant to skeptical affronts such as the Pessimistic Metainduction. Chapter 15 attempts an empiricist re-appropriation of the putatively realist commitments Effective Realists stake out. It also argues that resisting empiricist reappropriation entangles selective realists in something alarmingly similar to the very project of ‘Standard Interpretation’ they regard as misguided.