Final assignment

Answer two of the following questions. If weather does not permit showing up for the final, then email your work to me.

1. What is scientific realism according to van Frassen? Explain the anti-realist view he endorses.
2. How does van Frassen's view require a distinction between the observable and the unobservable? How does he defend this distinction against Maxwell's challenges?
3. Explain Hacking’s realism about entities and how it differs from realism about theories.