@article{416, keywords = {scientific realism, truth, reference, mind-independent reality, theoretical terms, empirical content}, author = {Stathis Psillos and Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem}, title = {Scientific realism: quo vadis? Introduction: new thinking about scientific realism}, abstract = {This Introduction has two foci: the first is a discussion of the motivation for and the aims of the 2014 conference on New Thinking about Scientific Realism in Cape Town South Africa, and the second is a brief contextualization of the contributed articles in this special issue of Synthese in the framework of the conference. Each focus is discussed in a separate section.}, year = {2017}, journal = {Synthese}, volume = {194}, chapter = {3187-3201}, publisher = {Springer}, isbn = {0039-7857 , 1573-0964}, doi = {10.1007/s11229-017-1493-x}, }