… and scientific realism have emerged as important perspectives on international relations
in … This book demonstrates the vitality of this approach and the difference that'realism'makes. …

… Indeed, many scientific realists have not tried to develop the implications of this account
of science in terms of social science, and many of those that have, have concluded that SR …

… scientific realism to critically examine Marxist and other theoretical claims. Of course, scientific
realism can be put to work on a range of different theories, although I find its relationship …

… does not assure us that A exists; for the scientific realist, the sentence, `Inferior theory T1 talks
… to any real entity but the term is used in what the scientific realist will say is a true sentence. …

… That position is entirely consistent with the position taken in this article and the way in
which scientific realists and critical realists in IR have argued for the priority of ontology. …

… for defining scientific realism: “A coarse-grained sense that can be given to scientific realism
is to … But note the oddity of this way of putting scientific realism. I do not, of course, doubt that …

… scientific realism in the international relations literature has largely taken the form of attacks
on various nonscientific realist … of the arguments for scientific realism depends in large …

… of international relations (chapter 3). This section culminates in creation of the scientific …
Part 2 reviews structural realism within the context of a scientific research enterprise and …

… Scientific realism, the general outlook recommended for IR, … In the fourth section, scientific
realism as a general perspec… related to adoption of scientific realism as a foundation for …

… not new to critical realist thinking. We can find a very similar commitment to scientific realism
and its consequences in Alexander Wendt’s Social Theory of International Politics, another …