Richard Boyd (Ph.D. MIT 1970) is a philosopher currently at Cornell University. He is well known in philosophy of science circles as a realist. His book "The Philosophy of Science" (ISBN 0-262-52156-3) is widely used in undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses. He has also made important contributions to the development of Cornell realism, a distinctly naturalistic position in moral philosophy. Wikipedia
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