caa a22 4500 388098961 CHVBK 20180307125311.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300010192 doi S0012217300010192 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300010192 Brown Bryson University of Lethbridge Smoke and Mirrors: A Few Nice Tricks [Elektronische Daten] [Bryson Brown] Two aims are at work in James Brown's Smoke and Mirrors: to defend realism against some of its recent detractors, and to expound his own programmatic commitment to a Platonic form of realism. I am sympathetic to his first goal, and dubious about the second, so, as Brown himself predicts, I am enthusiastic about the critical part of the book but critical of his Platonic project. But I will begin this review with a hearty recommendation. Smoke and Mirrors is clear, articulate, perceptive, occasionally provocative, and a healthy antidote to the sceptical pessimism about science that one encounters so often today. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1999 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 38/1(1999), 123-134 0012-2173 38:1<123 1999 38 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300010192 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300010192 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brown Bryson University of Lethbridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 38/1(1999), 123-134 0012-2173 38:1<123 1999 38 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge