Arthur Isadore Fine (born November 11, 1937) is an American philosopher of science now emeritus at the University of Washington.
[3] Fine famously proposed the natural ontological attitude (NOA) as a resolution to the debates over scientific realism.
[4] Fine also developed one of the possible interpretations of quantum mechanics yet to be decided between and has contributed to the probabilistic understanding of Bell's theorem.
In 2001, Fine gave the following re-counting of the birth of NOA and its important relationship to Bas van Fraassen's antirealism: The Scientific Image arrived in 1980 like a breath of fresh air.
Although in the introduction van Fraassen counts me among the realist foot soldiers, at just that time Micky Forbes and I were engaged in rethinking the whole realism/antirealism issue.