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Navigating the Meta-Epistemology of the Scientific Realism Debate: In Defense of Truth, by Raimund Pils @unisalzburg.bsky.social, published in Philosophers' Imprint Volume 25, 2026.
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New Study Shows Machines Mirror Human Views on Scientific Realism
Researchers surveyed 500+ physicists and philosophers, creating AI personas; AI answers matched humans but showed weaker support for scientific realism. getnews.me/new-study-shows-machines... #scientificrealism #ai #philosophy
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4/10 't Hooft challenges physics' most sacred cow—quantum mechanics itself. "Many people like to keep some sense of mysticism about it, as if there's something strange, something almost religious. I think that's totally false."
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"Rather than either embracing or shunning all that we see, we must instead find ways to manage the risk that comes with trusting that something is correct"
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Ask:
Is this true/ correct, likely to be true/correct - how & why?
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The work is a prime example of Eakins's scientific realism. The rendering is almost photographically precise – so much so that art historians have been able to identify everyone depicted in the painting, with the exception of the patient. It largely repeats the subject of Eakins's earlier The Gross Clinic (1875), seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting echoes the subject and treatment of Rembrandt's famous Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), and other earlier depictions of public surgery such as the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the Quack Physicians' Hall (c. 1730) by the Dutch artist Egbert van Heemskerck, and the fourth scene in William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751). The Agnew Clinic is one of Eakins's most hotly debated works. His decision to portray a partially nude woman observed by a roomful of men (even though they were doctors, and in an undeniably medical setting) was controversial. It was rejected for exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1891, and at New York's Society of American Artists in 1892. Its exhibition at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was criticized.
The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins, 1889, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
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