Zero Critical is notable for its scientific realism.

The main alternative to scientific realism is instrumentalism.

According to scientific realism, an ideal scientific theory has the following features:

This is the metaphysical commitment of scientific realism.

Portraying scientific realism in terms of its ancient, medieval, and early modern cousins is at best misleading.

Another argument against scientific realism, deriving from the underdetermination problem, is not so historically motivated as these others.

Cryonics still made him nervous, but the literature appealed to Ben's optimistic nature and seemed not to conflict with scientific realism.

Critics of scientific realism ask how the inner perception of mental images actually occurs.

Instrumentalism avoids the debate between anti-realism and philosophical or scientific realism.

The work is a prime example of Eakins's scientific realism.