Instrumental Realism The Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology

--Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perceptionapproach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an "instrumental realistapproach to the philosophy of science.