ALAN WALLACE - The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion "In this paper I shall present a radical alternative to metaphysical realism, a view that underlies most literature on science and religion, and yet may also set science and religion in fundamental opposition to each other. Those who advocate metaphysical realism maintain that (1) the real world consists of mind-independent objects, (2) there is exactly one true and complete description of the way the world is, and (3) truth involves some sort of correspondence between an independently existent world and our descriptions of it (Putnam 1990:30)." http://www.srhe.ucsb.edu/lectures/text/wallaceText.html