Shech featured in IAI News
Elay Shech recently wrote a piece for the Institute of Art and Ideas, or IAI, news. His feature "The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods" can be found here. In his piece Shech argues that by contextualizing scientific claims relative to scale and internal standards of a theory, scientific realism can still be defended.
Shech is an associate professor in philosophy at Auburn University and author of Idealization in Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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