In a chapter of his book Reasonable Faith, William Lane Craig wrote an argument against scientific anti-realism as one of his side notes. It is not the most important part of the book, but I think it deserves some attention, so I have written a short article on it. You may read the article for yourself here. An excerpt:
In the course of attempting a philosophical presentation of the truths of Christianity, specifically in the chapter on historical knowledge, William Lane Craig took aim at scientific anti-realism of the Kunhnian variety. Thomas S. Kuhn is the famous philosopher of science who posits that science advances in paradigm shifts or revolutions, and that there is a certain incommensurability between the science before and the science that comes after such paradigm shifts. In his later years, Kuhn stresses the incommensurability thesis, stating the incommensurability can be seen in the scientific language used. Kuhn of course was not the only scientific anti-realist around, and his theories should not be confused with other anti-realist views of science. In this engagement with Craig’s views therefore, I will be focused strictly on Kuhn’s version of anti-realism.
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