---
title: "Stathis Psillos"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Stathis Psillos"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["convergent epistemological realism","pessimistic induction","Larry Laudan","Michael Devitt"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


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.

## References
- [[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.