This talk will give a general introduction to debates over scientific realism. It will cover the main ingredients and variants of scientific realism -- including the distinction between entity realism and structural realism -- and discuss some standard arguments for and against these ingredients and variants.
This talk is part of a Lecture series on foundations of physics: scientific realism (260020 VO, 2.5 ECTS, ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.html) organised by the students of natural science of the University of Vienna (see naturwissenschaftscafe.wordpress.com)
