<b>Scientific Realism today: 40 years of the making of the No-Miracle Argument
Abstract
In 1975 Hilary Putnam captured in a few lines a longstanding intuition about the epistemic status of scientific theories. These lines are almost universally recognized as the first explicit formulation of the No-Miracles Argument (NMA). During the past 40 years, the debate on Scientific Realism became one of the central topics of the philosophy of science. The plausibility of NMA has been defended or challenged by several strategies, and new arguments fueled a controversy that still stands today. Current paper provides an overview of the dispute, and then critically addresses some of the most recent contributions to the contemporary debate.
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