Science, Reality, and Language

Michele Marsonet is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy at the University of Genoa, Italy.

• Preface 1. The Analytic Legacy 2. Between Language and Reality 3. Realism and Anti-Realism 4. Ontology and Apriorism 5. The Road to Naturalism Notes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

"This book is refreshingly honest, clear, and persuasive. It promises to transform the terms of the current debate between realism and anti-realism, and to reestablish some form of naturalism and, in the process, some form of sanity to the current practice of philosophy of science. It represents a welcome and much discussed addition to the growing body of literature documenting the onset of a dramatic reaction against the excesses of anti-realism and the linguistic turn on the part of mainstream analytic philosophers of science." —R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities