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- What are the connections between realism, relativism, technology, and environmental ethics?C. Ecological Realism -2010 -Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions 5:336.
- A Statement of Temporal Realism.Two Essays on Temporal Realism -1996 - In Brian Jack Copeland,Logic and reality: essays on the legacy of Arthur Prior. New York: Oxford University Press.Export citation
Bookmark - h) Why Nyaya Remains Realist: Second Round Arindam Chakraborty Let us assume that Navya Nyaya cannot make the distinction between sense and reference. Why should that entail (as Daya.Why Nydya Remains Realist -2004 - In Daya Krishna,Discussion and debate in Indian philosophy: issues in Vedānta, Mīmāṁsā, and Nyāya. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research.Export citation Bookmark
- EJ Lowe Metaphysical Realism and the Unity of Truth.Metaphysical Realism -2003 - In Andreas Bächli & Klaus Petrus,Monism. Frankfurt: Ontos. pp. 9--109.Export citation Bookmark
- Postscript: Materialism and realism in metaethics.Moral Realist -1995 - In Paul K. Moser & J. D. Trout,Contemporary Materialism: A Reader. New York: Routledge. pp. 343.
- Pligatures.Société Réaliste -2008 -Multitudes 35 (4):147.No categories
- Connie Rosati, University of Arizona.Constitutional Realism -2019 - In Toh Kevin, Plunkett David & Shapiro Scott,Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour.Keith Allen -2016 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press UK.A Naive Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the physical sciences. This view stands in contrast to the long-standing and wide-spread view amongst philosophers and scientists that colours don't really exist - or at any rate, that if they do exist, then they are radically different from the way that they appear. It is argued that a naive realist theory of colour best (...) explains how colours appear to perceiving subjects, and that this view is not undermined either by reflecting on variations in colour perception between perceivers and across perceptual conditions, or by our modern scientific understanding of the world. A Naive Realist Theory of Colour also illustrates how our understanding of what colours are has far-reaching implications for wider questions about the nature of perceptual experience, the relationship between mind and world, the problem of consciousness, the apparent tension between common sense and scientific representations of the world, and even the very nature and possibility of philosophical inquiry. (shrink)
- Some Free Thinking about Time.Two Essays on Temporal Realism -1996 - In Brian Jack Copeland,Logic and reality: essays on the legacy of Arthur Prior. New York: Oxford University Press.No categories
- Quentin Smith.Moral Realism,Infinite Spacetime &Imply Moral Nihilism -2003 - In Heather Dyke,Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Kluwer Academic Publishers.Export citation Bookmark
- Debunking, supervenience, and Hume’s Principle.in Particular Science &in Metaethics Realism/Anti-Realism Debates She is Currently Working on Analogies Between Debates Over Realism/Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics -2019 -Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (8):1083-1103.Debunking arguments against both moral and mathematical realism have been pressed, based on the claim that our moral and mathematical beliefs are insensitive to the moral/mathematical facts. In the mathematical case, I argue that the role of Hume’s Principle as a conceptual truth speaks against the debunkers’ claim that it is intelligible to imagine the facts about numbers being otherwise while our evolved responses remain the same. Analogously, I argue, the conceptual supervenience of the moral on the natural speaks presents (...) a difficulty for the debunker’s claim that, had the moral facts been otherwise, our evolved moral beliefs would have remained the same. (shrink)No categories
- 698 philosophical abstracts.Objectivity Gender &Alan Realism -1994 -The Monist 77 (4).No categories
- Wh Newton-Smith.I. Varieties Of Realism -1989 - In R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge,Companion to the History of Modern Science. Routledge.No categories
- Honni van Rijswijk.Law'S. Aggressive Realism,Feminist Genres Of Violence & Harm -2018 - In Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos,Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory. New York, NY: Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- Aladjem, Terry K. 2008. The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xx+ 246 pp. Alexander, J. McKenzie. 2007. The Structural Evolution of Morality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ix+ 300 pp. Altman, Matthew C. 2008. A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. [REVIEW]Practical Realism -2008 -Philosophical Review 117 (4).No categories
- Realism versus Idealism, Maritain versus Husserl.Nikolaj Zunic -2020 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 36:91-104.No categories
- Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano.Liliana Albertazzi -2006 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.This book guides the readers through Brentano's life and works, investigating into the inherent complexity of both his view of mental life and the related methodology.
- Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Oviedo E-33007, Oviedo, Spain.A. Realistic Interpretation of Lattice Gauge -1995 - In M. Ferrero & Alwyn van der Merwe,Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics. Springer. pp. 177.No categories
- does the natural law theory coming from Aristotle and St. Thomas fit into this modern debate, especially in the light of the Grisez-Finnis school, which sees Aquinas, if not Aristotle, as having taken the Kantian turn in some way?Realism V. Idealism -1986 -Philosophy 61 (237).
- Simon Bostock.Property Realism -forthcoming -Metaphysica.No categories
- The theory-observation distinction, Andre Kukla.Axiological Realism -1996 -Philosophy 71 (275).
- Uskali Maki.Some Realist Moderations -2003 - In Matti Sintonen, Petri Ylikoski & Kaarlo Miller,Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 51.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Post-secularism, realism and utopia: transcendence and immanence from Hegel to Bloch.Jolyon Agar -2014 - New York: Routledge.This book addresses the recent rise in post-secularism in the humanities and social sciences. Post-secularism is the proposition that the secular project begun by the Enlightenment has come to an end. If we define secularism as the historical process of increasing marginalisation of the religious from contributing to debates in the public sphere and the process of public policy formation then it is in crisis. This opens up the intriguing possibility that there may be opportunities for renewed debate about the (...) nature of our "secular age" and the role of religion in modern society. (shrink)
- Classes and concepts may, however, also be conceived as real ob-jects, namely classes as “pluralities of things” or as structures con-sisting of a plurality of things and concepts as the properties and relations of things existing independently of our definitions and con-structions.Conceptual Realism Godel’S. -2005 -Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (2).Export citation Bookmark
- Realism and the physical world.Douglas Fawcett -1923 -Mind 32 (126):270-271.
- A realist journey through social theory and political economy: an interview with Andrew Sayer.Andrew Sayer &Jamie Morgan -2022 -Journal of Critical Realism 21 (4):434-470.In this wide-ranging interview Andrew Sayer discusses how he became a realist and then the development of his work over the subsequent decades. He comments on his postdisciplinary approach, his early work on economy and its influences, how he came to write Method in Social Science and the transition in Realism and Social Science to normative critical social science and moral economy. The interview concludes with discussion of his three most recent books and the themes that connect them, not least (...) the ongoing problem of a ‘diabolical double crisis’ of capitalism: extreme inequality and climate change. (shrink)
- How Deployment Realism withstands Doppelt's Criticisms.Mario Alai -2018 -Spontaneous Generations 9 (1):122-135.Gerald Doppelt claims that Deployment Realism cannot withstand the antirealist objections based on the “pessimistic meta-induction” and Laudan’s historical counterexamples. Moreover it is incomplete, as it purports to explain the predictive success of theories, but overlooks the necessity to explain also their explanatory success. Accordingly, he proposes a new version of realism, presented as the best explanation of both predictive and explanatory success, and committed only to the truth of best current theories, not of the discarded ones. Elsewhere I criticized (...) his new brand of realism. Here instead I argue that Doppelt has not shown that Deployment Realism cannot solve the problems raised by the history of science, explaining explanatory success does not add much to explaining novel predictive success, and Doppelt is right that truth is not a sufficient explanans, but for different reasons, and this does not refute Deployment Realism, but helps to detail it better. In a more explicit formulation, the realist IBE concludes not only to the truth of theories, but also to the reliability of scientists and scientific method, the order and simplicity of nature, and the approximate truth of background theories. (shrink)
- Internal realism and rationality in the thinking of Hilary Putnam.R. Corvi -2005 -Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 97 (3):473-496.Export citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Characterizing Moral Realism.Jude Edeh -forthcoming -Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences.Jude Edeh ABSTRACT: The challenge faced with the proliferation of various kinds of cognitivism is the difficulty of providing a straightforward characterization of moral realism and antirealism. In light of this tension, I identified a problem in Sayre-McCord’s way of specifying the criteria of moral realism. Furthermore, I provided a framework that characterized the moral ….No categories
- What is Scientific Realism?Anjan Chakravartty &Bas C. van Fraassen -2018 -Spontaneous Generations 9 (1):12-25.Decades of debate about scientific realism notwithstanding, we find ourselves bemused by what different philosophers appear to think it is, exactly. Does it require any sort of belief in relation to scientific theories and, if so, what sort? Is it rather typified by a certain understanding of the rationality of such beliefs? In the following dialogue we explore these questions in hopes of clarifying some convictions about what scientific realism is, and what it could or should be. En route, we (...) encounter some profoundly divergent conceptions of the nature of science and of philosophy. (shrink)
- John Skorupski.I. On'anti-Realism -1986 - In Jeremy Butterfield,Language, mind and logic. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 151.
- Hailing black holes: Rhetorical realism in the age of hyperobjects.Brian Zager -2021 -Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 12 (2):111-128.This article addresses the challenge philosophical realism poses to the field of rhetoric by exploring the possibility of symbolic communion with nonhuman entities. As a matter of framing, I invoke Timothy Morton’s concept of the hyperobject to better understand the complexities of communicating with and about sublime nonhuman objects such as black holes. I then delineate how the stylistic modality of the weird best exploits the chasm between autonomous thingness and human presentation that is a primary source of consternation for (...) rhetorical realism. Finally, I draw from Kathe Koja’s novel The Cipher to reconsider a bizarre rhetoric of black holes which displays the omnipresent tension of accessible-alterity characteristic of the struggle to rhetorically breach the nonhuman world. (shrink)No categories
- Motivations for Realism in the Light of Mathematical Practice.Jessica Carter -2005 -Croatian Journal of Philosophy 5 (1):17-29.The aim of this paper is to identify some of the motivations that can be found for taking a realist position concerning mathematical entities and to examine these motivations in the light of a case study in contemporary mathematics. The motivations that are found are as follows: (some) mathematicians are realists, mathematical statements are true, and finally, mathematical statements have a special certainty. These claims are compared with a result in algebraic topology stating that a certain sequence, the so-called Mayer-Vietoris (...) sequence, has different properties when placed in different categories. The conclusion is that the before mentioned motivations should be modified and it is suggested that they could also be explained by a position claiming that mathematical entities are introduced by mathematicians. (shrink)
- Confronting the neoliberal challenge: Recognition, social freedom and depth realism.Jolyon Charles Agar -2025 -Theoria 91 (1):88-105.This article explores how Axel Honneth's critical theory, when adapted to a materialist depth realism, can be utilised as a critique of Fredrick Hayek's ‘neoliberalism’, an antipolitics influenced by Karl Popper's neo-positivism. In response to the neoliberal challenge, it is proposed that Axel Honneth's theories of recognition, when grounded in anthropological (‘critical’) materialism, provides a robust defence of an irreducible social agency. When interpreted through this lens, recognition is one aspect of the system of human needs based on subject–subject interactions, (...) the other being a subject–object interaction of humans with non-human objects. By contrast, Honneth's more recent theory of social freedom relies on a Hegelian process of historical reconstruction and so remains vulnerable to the same epistemic errors that inform neoliberal attempts to universalise homo economicus, that is, of reducing reality to various ways in which it is conceptualised. In this regard, anthropological materialism must presuppose depth realism. The importance of this can be seen when the implications for Honneth's move towards a more orthodox Hegelianism in his more recent works are considered. (shrink)No categories
- Philosophy of realism: a study based on Chāndogya Upaniṣad.Krishnamurthy Bheemacharya Archak -2003 - New Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan.The Book Is The First Comparative And Critical Exploration Of The Chandogya Upnishad With Logical Strength Metaphysical Consistency And Enables The Discerning Reader To See And Appreciate The Prine Metaphysical Value Of The Upanishad.
- Reconstructing Probabilistic Realism: Re-enacting Syntactical Structures.Majid Davoody Beni -2020 -Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 51 (2):293-313.Probabilistic realism and syntactical positivism were two among outdated theories that Feigl criticised on account of their semantical poverty. In this paper, I argue that a refined version of probabilistic realism, which relies on what Feigl specified as the pragmatic description of the symbolic behaviour of scientists’ estimations and foresight, is defendable. This version of statistical realism does not need to make the plausibility of realist thesis dependent on the conventional acceptance of a constructed semantic metalanguage. I shall rely on (...) the Prediction Error Minimisation theory to support my probabilistic version of realism with a scientifically-informed and naturalistically plausible statistical account of the theories-world relationship which has a pragmatic ring to it. (shrink)
- Realism in the philosophy of mathematics: A critical discussion.T. Arrigoni -2000 -Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 92 (3-4):627-646.Export citation Bookmark
- Realism, Rationality, and Philosophical Method.Robert Audi -1987 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (1):65 - 74.
- Realism and understanding.Matti Sintonen -1982 -Synthese 52 (3):347 - 378.
- Introduction: Realism, Realisms, and Anti-realisms.William Sweet -2015 -Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 11:1-12.No categories
- Realism and a philosophy of choice.Joseph Wall -1963 -World Futures 1 (3):78-84.
- Reconstituting Realism: Feasibility, Utopia and Epistemological Imperfection.Alan Finlayson Adrian Little -2015 -Contemporary Political Theory 14 (3):276.
- Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson.A. J. Baker -1987 -Philosophy 62 (241):404-406.No categories
- Realism in the ethics of immigration.James S. Pearson -2023 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (8):950-974.The ethics of immigration is currently marked by a division between realists and idealists. The idealists generally focus on formulating morally ideal immigration policies. The realists, however, tend to dismiss these ideals as far-fetched and infeasible. In contrast to the idealists, the realists seek to resolve pressing practical issues relating to immigration, principally by advancing what they consider to be actionable policy recommendations. In this article, I take issue with this conception of realism. I begin by surveying the way in (...) which it exemplifies what certain political theorists have recently called ‘problem-solving’ realism – a species of realism which they reject as incoherent. These theorists demonstrate that what counts as a ‘feasible’ solution is far harder to establish than most problem-solving realists would have us believe. Applying this general critique to the specific domain of immigration ethics turns out to radically undermine the notion of realism that prevails in this sphere of applied ethics. I conclude that we should therefore revise our conception of what constitutes a genuinely realist approach to the problem of immigration. (shrink)
- Blind realism.Robert Almeder -1987 -Erkenntnis 26 (1):57 - 101.
- van Brakel: Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image (Louvain Philosophical Studies 15), Leuven 2000 (Leuven University Press), XXII+ 246 Index (Bfr. 700,–). Cao, Tian Yu (ed.): Conceptual Foundation of Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge (Univer-sity Press) 1999, XIX+ 399 Index (£ 60.–). [REVIEW]Ilkka Niiniluoto &Critical Scientific Realism -2001 -Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 32:199-200.Export citation Bookmark
- Epistemological Implications of Structural Realism. 강형구 -2023 -Journal of Korean Philosophical Society 167:27-57.본 논문을 통해 나는, 인식론적인 구조적 실재론에서 존재론적인 구조적 실재론으로까지 구조적 실재론의 입장을 강화시키려는 래디먼의 입장을 비판적으로 검토해보고자 한다. 내가 생각할 때 구조적 실재론을 존재론적 차원까지 강화시키는 시도는 철학적으로 정당화될 수 없으며, 인식론적 차원의 구조적 실재론은 그 자체로 충분히 강력한 실재론으로 남을 수 있다. 이에 대해 인식론적인 구조적 실재론은 구성적 경험론과 사실상 별 차이가 없는것 아닌가 하는 반론이 제기될 수 있고, 실제로 반 프라센은 2006년에 발표된 그의 논문에서 경험주의의 입장에서도 구조적 실재론이 말하는 ‘구조’의 개념을 포섭할 수 있음을 보이려 했다. 하지만 (...) 구조적 실재론을 포섭하려는 이와 같은 구성적 경험론의 시도는 다음과 같은 두 가지 이유에서 실패할 수 밖에 없다. 첫째, 구성적 경험론은 여전히 ‘기적을 거부하는 논증(No Miracle Argument)’의 요구를 회피할 수 없는 반면 구조적 실재론은 그렇지 않다. 둘째, 과학사적 사례 연구에 의하면, 인식론적인 구조적 실재론은 기초적인 과학의 발전에 있어 핵심적인 요소로 기능하는 반면 구성적 경험론은 그러한 기능을 하지 못한다. 따라서 인식론적인 구조적 실재론은 반실재론적 입장에 위치한 구성적 경험론과는 분명하게 구분되며, 이는 구성적 경험론에 비해 상대적인 우월성을 지니는 형이상학적 연구 프로그램이라 할 수 있다. (shrink)No categories
- Varieties of Scientific Realism: Objectivity and Truth in Science.Evandro Agazzi (ed.) -2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative representatives of different philosophical traditions explain their perspectives on the meaning and validity of scientific realism and describe the strategies being adopted to counter persisting antirealist positions. The coverage extends beyond the usual discussion (...) of realism within the context of the natural sciences, and especially physics, to encompass also its applicability in mathematics, logic, and the human sciences. The book will appeal to all with an interest in the recent realist epistemologies of science, the nature of current philosophical debate, and the ongoing rehabilitation of truth as the legitimate goal of scientific research. (shrink)No categories
- Bayesian realism and structural representation.Alex Kiefer &Jakob Hohwy -2022 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e199.We challenge Bruineberg et al's view that Markov blankets are illicitly reified when used to describe organismic boundaries. We do this both on general methodological grounds, where we appeal to a form of structural realism derived from Bayesian cognitive science to dissolve the problem, and by rebutting specific arguments in the target article.
- Realism as emergentism.Maurizio Ferraris -2018 -Journal of Critical Realism 17 (4):355-363.ABSTRACTIn this paper, I assume that, if knowledge does not refer to something other than itself, the words ‘subject’, ‘object’, ‘epistemology’, ‘ontology’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘reflection’ would be meaningless. I define the transcendental fallacy as involving faith in the existence of a spirit independent from matter, capable of producing representations and things. In terms of matter and memory, the fact that the past is repeated by matter is even more important than the fact that it is recalled by memory, because without (...) matter there would be no memory and no ability to remember. I remind the reader that only individuals exist and that the first character of individuals is that they are external with respect to others. Finally, I consider how epistemology should be considered in terms of Pentecostal meaning and emergent meaning: Pentecostal meaning follows the path Meaning → Expression → Inscription. Emergent meaning goes from Inscription → Expression → Meaning. (shrink)No categories
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