Scientific Realism - lecture by Prof. Martin Kusch

Does a reality to be described by science exist? Martin Kusch (University of Vienna) talks about "A Philosophical Introduction to Scientific Realism". This is a lecture of a series on philosophical and fundamental investigation in science.

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How does classical SR deal with schrodingers wavefunction? A theory that can be used to accurately describe (in theory) any object but involves the use of imaginary numbers. How can it then be that the entities postulated by this theory are real when some of its constituents are imaginary, even if it describes well a real system?