ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role and the significance of new empiricism in philosophy of scientific practices (PSP) based on N. Cartwright’s research. Joseph Rouse, an advocate of PSP, cites Cartwright many times and discusses many ideas of new empiricism. Cartwright clearly advocates a view of plural realism. However, Rouse does not clearly support a certain kind of realism. It appears as contrary to PSP which resolves the dispute between realism and anti-realism and which claims that intervention to the world is the interpretation of the world. PSP understands scientific knowledge as local. This locality of knowledge reflects a limitation of the practical space of practitioners, and of temporality in time. Though practice itself can extend and continue endlessly in time, every specific practice is local. Local realism is a natural and inevitable requirement of view of local knowledge in PSP.
