This book offers new insights into Hume's problem of induction. In addition to that, it argues against the coherentist justification of induction, refuting Hume's initial problem of induction and develops counter-inductions to defend scientific realism from pessimists and advocates a realist theory of scientific development. In doing so, this book enriches the moral realism debate with the scientific realism debate and is of great value to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of science.

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Seungbae Park received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001, specializing in philosophy of science under the guidance of Professor Richard Healey. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, and Pohang University of Science and Technology before coming to his current institution, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, in 2009. He has published a book, Embracing Scientific Realism, in Synthese Library and papers in journals including Synthese, Inquiry, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Social Epistemology. He has served as an anonymous referee for Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Social Epistemology, Synthese Library, and Cambridge Elements.