Critical Contextual Empiricism as a Version of Pluralist Realism

Abstract

critical contextual empiricism (cce), developed by Helen longino, has made it possible to permanently establish the social and normative aspects in the treatment of understanding of science. in addition, there is a belief that the approach makes it possible to make sense of some classical problems of the philosophy of science, especially the problem of underdetermination, in a better way than any kind of realist or antirealist approaches have been able to. However, quite recently, rein Vihalemm proposed a realist approach, ‘practical realism’ (Pr), which also assignes the