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Makes refreshing and enlightening reading, in comparison to the usual very dry, rarefied discussions of methodology.... Exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing.... [It] demonstrate[s] the virtues of a sober and careful appraisal of the issues concerning realism about scientific theories. I shall be urging those of my students intoxicated by the excesses of social constructivism to study them closer. --Peter Menzies, Times Literary Supplement<br>

Theory and Truth is, amongst other things, a call for a reconceptualization of the respective tasks of general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, and for a closer relationship between the two specialties. If Sklar is right, then there is a vast store of interesting philosophical problems lying between the fine-grained topics of philosophy of physics and the more abstract problems of general philosophy of science - and this largely unexplored set of problems is of fundamental importance to the project of understanding the structure and content of scientific knowledge... Theory and Truth contains a number of provocative ideas in addition to its central programmatic thesis. * Gordon Belot, Brit Journ Phil Science (52/2001) * short and engaging book * Gordon Belot, Brit Journ Phil Science (52/2001) * His book makes refreshing and enlightening reading * Peter Menzies, TLS * Review from previous edition Sklar's discussion ... is exemplary, and always anchored in the concrete details of real scientific theorizing. * Peter Menzies, TLS *

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Lawrence Sklar is William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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