In Success, reason and change in physical, Andrés Rivadulla left for another book detailed analysis of the epistemological debate. This book widely fulfills this purpose. The controversy realism-instrumentalism occupies an important part of this text, in which the different contemporary currents of scientific realism are presented, their weaknesses are analyzed and developed historically and systematically instrumentalism, epistemological current for which decant the Author. It stresses in particular the importance that this gives the interteórica incompatibility as an argument to be decided by the outcome of the debate.
But this book is also a work of methodology of science. The author claims the role the context of discovery has for a complete view of it, in which context of justification and discovery are at the same level of relevance. Thus, special emphasis is placed on the weight of abduction in observational sciences and theoretical sciences of nature, and proposed a new form of deductive creativity, preducción, in the context of discovery of the theoretical sciences.
After revolutions in physics and Success, reason and change in physics, this book closes a kind of trilogy about science, history and philosophy. The numerous innovations introduced in this work, both in methodology of science and epistemology, promise to keep the interest that the current philosophy of science has been raising over the past decades.