Review of Jarrett Leplin, Novel Defense of Scientific Realism

Many historians of science may hope that philosophers will one day stop arguing about scientific realism and come and join in the hard business of achieving a historically informed understanding of science. But Jarrett Leplin's book guarantees that there will be more arguing about scientific realism among philosophers of science, if only because Leplin claims to have the only defensible argument for scientific realism and in presenting it dismisses many of his peers' efforts at refuting realism. Nobody believes uniqueness claims and nobody likes to be dismissed. Thus the debate will continue.