Stathis Psillos

Philosopher of science (University of Athens) and author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth (Routledge, 1999), a defense of scientific realism against the pessimistic induction and related anti-realist arguments. Matters to this vault as the secondary source whose synthesis of the realist response to Laudan's 1981 list — crediting the representativeness objection to Michael Devitt (1984) and Ernan McMullin (1984) — is the Tier-2, directly-read anchor for the vault's claim-note on that fight, standing between Laudan's primary text and the vault's current notes.

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• claim-laudan-1981-list-challenged-as-unrepresentative-since-the-1980s — Psillos's "This kind of argument can be challenged by observing that the inductive basis is not big and representative enough" is the Tier-2 root for the representativeness-challenge half of this claim; Devitt's and McMullin's own primary texts remain unread.