ABSTRACT
Debates on scientific realism (SR) not only had a beginning and contemporary developments before those on Modal Realism (MR) and on Nomological Realism (NR), also their thematics were deeply entangled. Some realist attitude regarding other scientific theories has many times been followed by the adoption of commitments with an objective modality and the natural laws. Nevertheless, the relations among these three positions have been little explored. In this article I hold that keeping SR indirectly means committing to MR and NR. In the first case, because of the arguments supporting SR, in the second case, once within the options available in the debate on the laws, NR is - by comparison - better for the scientific realism.
Keywords:
Scientific Realism; Nomological Realism; Laws of Nature; Modality; Modal Realism