Book Criticism: The Success and Rationality of Science Based on Michael Banner’s PerspectiveⅠ

In this paper, we studied the perspective of Michael Banner on the rationality of science and explained the reason for its success. In the first place, Michael Banner examines the rationality of science and its well-known perspectives. He begins his first step by Thomas Kuhn’s viewpoints on the ways of the scientific theories emergence and validation as well as the rationality of science. the, come up and contributes to the controversial debates of Thomas Kuhn and some other Anti-realists in the philosophy of science, and Disagree on them. After pointing out the disagreement between the He continues with discussing the debates of Thomas Kuhn and some Anti-realists on the philosophy of science, and highlights their different viewpoints. Ultimately, he chooses the view of “Rational Realism” gives his arguments on it, and examines the opposing views. Among the Anti-realists, he focuses on the views of Thomas Kuhn and Larry Laudan. In this article, we have reviewed the perspective of Michael Banner, and here, we considered the disadvantages of his perspective, and then tried to complete it.