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  1. 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.
     
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  2. 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.
     
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    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.
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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.
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  5. EJ Lowe Metaphysical Realism and the Unity of Truth.Metaphysical Realism - 2003 - In Andreas Bächli & Klaus Petrus, Monism. Frankfurt: Ontos. pp. 9--109.
     
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    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).
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    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.
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  8. 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.
     
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  9. 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.
     
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    The theory-observation distinction, Andre Kukla.Axiological Realism - 1996 - Philosophy 71 (275).
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    698 philosophical abstracts.Objectivity Gender & Alan Realism - 1994 - The Monist 77 (4).
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    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.
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  13. 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).
  14. Moral Realism and Philosophical Angst.Joshua Blanchard - 2020 - In Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 15. Oxford University Press.
    This paper defends pro-realism, the view that it is better if moral realism is true rather than any of its rivals. After offering an account of philosophical angst, I make three general arguments. The first targets nihilism: in securing the possibility of moral justification and vindication in objecting to certain harms, moral realism secures something that is non-morally valuable and even essential to the meaning and intelligibility of our lives. The second argument targets antirealism: moral realism (...)
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  15. Realism in political theory.William A. Galston - 2010 - European Journal of Political Theory 9 (4):385-411.
    In recent decades, a ‘realist’ alternative to ideal theories of politics has slowly taken shape. Bringing together philosophers, political theorists, and political scientists, this countermovement seeks to reframe inquiry into politics and political norms. Among the hallmarks of this endeavor are a moral psychology that includes the passions and emotions; a robust conception of political possibility and rejection of utopian thinking; the belief that political conflict — of values as well as interests — is both fundamental and ineradicable; a focus (...)
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  16. 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.
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  17. 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.
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    Between Realism and Relativism: Moral Certainty as a Third Option.Samuel Laves - 2020 - Philosophical Forum 51 (3):297-313.
    This paper is an attempt to lay out a meta‐ethical position that is inspired by the framework of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. To achieve this goal, this paper is divided into two parts. First, I explore recent attempts to tie Wittgenstein's epistemology in On Certainty to moral epistemology. I argue that there can be a meaningful parallel drawn between the epistemic certainties discussed in On Certainty and what I consider to be moral certainties. These moral certainties are unjustified fundamental moral attitudes (...)
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  19. Quentin Smith.Moral Realism, Infinite Spacetime & Imply Moral Nihilism - 2003 - In Heather Dyke, Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
     
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    Pligatures.Société Réaliste - 2008 - Multitudes 35 (4):147.
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    Simon Bostock.Property Realism - forthcoming - Metaphysica.
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  22. What Realism Implies and What it Does Not.Richard Boyd - 1989 - Dialectica 43 (1‐2):5-29.
    SummaryThis paper addresses the question of what scientific realism implies and what it does not when it is articulated so as to provide the best defense against plausible philosophical alternatives. A summary is presented of “abductive” arguments for scientific realism, and of the epistemological and semantic conceptions upon which they depend. Taking these arguments to be the best current defense of realism, it is inquired what, in the sense just mentioned, realism implies and what it does (...)
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  23. Realism about Kinds in Later Mohism.Chris Fraser - 2021 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (1):93-114.
    In a recent article in this journal, Daniel Stephens argues against Chad Hansen’s and Chris Fraser’s interpretations of the later Mohists as realists about the ontology of kinds, contending that the Mohist stance is better explained as conventionalist. This essay defends a realist interpretation of later Mohism that I call “similarity realism,” the view that human-independent reality fixes the similarities that constitute kinds and thus determines what kinds exist and what their members are. I support this interpretation with a (...)
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  24. Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science.Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers (eds.) - 2021 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth. But they have long faced historical challenges: various episodes across history appear to demonstrate that even strongly supported scientific theories can be overturned and left behind. In response, realists have developed new positions and arguments. As a result of specific challenges from the history of science, and realist responses, we find ourselves with an ever increasing data-set bearing on the (possible) relationship between science and truth. The (...)
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    Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism.Ismael Al-Amoudi & Hugh Willmott - unknown
    The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or displaced in the field of management and organization studies, resulting in forms of analysis that are empirically, but not fully critically, realist. This evaluation prompts reflection on the question of whether, how and with what implications epistemological relativism might be recast at the heart (...)
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  26. Realism and antirealism about economics.Uskali Mäki - 2012 - In Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics. pp. 3--24.
    Economics is a controversial scientific discipline. One of the traditional issues that has kept economists and their critics busy is about whether economic theories and models are about anything real at all. The critics have argued that economic models are based on assumptions that are so utterly unrealistic that those models become purely fictional and have nothing informative to say about the real world. Many also claim that an antirealist instrumentalism (allegedly outlined by Milton Friedman in 1953) justifying such unrealistic (...)
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  27. Scientific realism and ontology.Uskali Mäki - 2008 - In Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics : volume 7 : real balances - stochastic volatility models. Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Economists customarily talk about the ‘realism’ of economic models and of their assumptions and make descriptive and prescriptive judgements about them: this model has more realism in it than that, the realism of assumptions does not matter, and so on. This is not the way philosophers mostly use the term ‘realism’ thus there is a major terminological discontinuity between the two disciplines. The following remarks organise and critically elaborate some of the philosophical usages of the term (...)
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  28. Realistic realism about unrealistic models.Uskali Mäki - 2009 - In Don Ross & Harold Kincaid, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. New York: Oxford University Press.
    My philosophical intuitions are those of a scientific realist. In addition to being realist in its philosophical outlook, my philosophy of economics also aspires to be realistic in the sense of being descriptively adequate, or at least normatively non-utopian, about economics as a scientific discipline. The special challenge my philosophy of economics must meet is to provide a scientific realist account that is realistic of a discipline that deals with a complex subject matter and operates with highly unrealistic models. Unrealisticness (...)
     
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    Defending Deployment Realism against Alleged Counterexamples.Mario Alai - 2014 - In Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson & Javier Cumpa, Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 265-290.
    Criticisms à la Laudan can block the “no miracles” argument for the (approximate) truth of whole theories. Realists have thus retrenched, arguing that at least the individual claims deployed in the derivation of novel predictions should be considered (approximately) true. But for Lyons (2002) there are historical counterexamples even to this weaker “deployment” realism: he lists a number of novel predictions supposedly derived from (radically) false claims. But if so, those successes would seem unexplainable, even by Lyons’ “modest surrealism” (...)
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    Ethical realism.Richard Werner - 1982 - Ethics 93 (4):653-679.
  31. Scientific Realism or Irenic Instrumentalism: A Critique of Nagel and Feyerabend on Theoretical Explanation.Wilfrid Sellars - 1965 - In Robert Cohen Max Wartofsky, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. II,. pp. 171-204.
    Sellars argues against Nagelian instrumentalism for his version (not Feyerabend's) of scientific realism.
     
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    Medicine, anti-realism and ideology: Variation in medical genetics does not show that race is biologically real.Phila Mfundo Msimang - 2020 - SATS 20 (2):117-140.
    Lee McIntyre’s Respecting Truth chronicles the contemporary challenges regarding the relationship amongst evidence, belief formation and ideology. The discussion in his book focusses on the ‘politicisation of knowledge’ and the purportedly growing public (and sometimes academic) tendency to choose to believe what is determined by prior ideological commitments rather than what is determined by evidence-based reasoning. In considering these issues, McIntyre posits that the claim “race is a myth” is founded on a political ideology rather than on support from scientific (...)
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  33. Moral realism, face-values and presumptions.Neil Sinclair - 2012 - Analytic Philosophy 53 (2):158-179.
    Many philosophers argue that the face-value of moral practice provides presumptive support to moral realism. This paper analyses such arguments into three steps. (1) Moral practice has a certain face-value, (2) only realism can vindicate this face value, and (3) the face-value needs vindicating. Two potential problems with such arguments are discussed. The first is taking the relevant face-value to involve explicitly realist commitments; the second is underestimating the power of non-realist strategies to vindicate that face-value. Case studies (...)
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  34. Adams, David M." Objectivity, Moral Truth, and Constitutional Doctrine: A Comment on R. George Wright's' Is Natural Law Theory of Any Use in Constitutional Interpretation?'" Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 4 (1995): 489-500. Alexander, Larry, and Ken Kress." Against Legal Principles," in A. Marmor (ed.), Law and Interpretation: Essays in Legal Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [REVIEW]Robert L. Arrington & Realism Rationalism - 2000 - In Brian Leiter, Objectivity in Law and Morals. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 4--331.
  35. Practical Realism: Against Standard Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism.Rein Vihalemm - 2012 - Studia Philosophica Estonica 5 (2):7-22.
    In this paper, the elaboration of the concept of practical realist philosophy of science which began in the author's previous papers is continued. It is argued that practical realism is opposed to standard scientific realism, on the one hand, and antirealism, on the other. Standard scientific realism is challengeable due to its abstract character, as being isolated from practice. It is based on a metaphysical-ontological presupposition which raises the problem of the God's Eye point of view (as (...)
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  36. Realist philosophy of language.Sunil Kumar Bera - 1994 - Calcutta: Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar.
  37. Reductive Realism and the Problem of Affection in Kant in An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.G. Buchdahl - 1989 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116:221-241.
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    Ethical New Realism.Leonardo Caffo & Sarah De Sanctis - 2018 - Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12:51-58.
    For the past thirty years postmodernism has been the major philosophical trend. Starting as a potentially emancipatory tool, though, it has virtually resolved into an acceptance of any kind of position, in the name of a very politically correct relativism. The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of New Realism in its opposition and reaction to Postmodernism, showing that it does not imply a return to a ‘traditional’ or ‘strong’ realism but that, on the contrary, (...)
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    Realism and Quantum Physics.Evandro Agazzi - 1997 - Rodopi.
    Contents: Evandro AGAZZI: Introduction. Part One: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Paul HORWICH: Realism and Truth. Evandro AGAZZI: On the Criteria for Establishing the Ontological Status of Different Entities. Aristides BALTAS; Con-straints and Resistance: Stating a Case for Negative Realism. Michel PATY: Predicate of Existence and Predictability for a Theoretical Object in Physics. Part Two: OBSERVABILITY AND HIDDEN ENTITIES. François BONSACK: Atoms: Lessons of a History. Alberto CORDERO: Arguing for Hidden Realities. Bernard d'ESPAGNAT: On the Difficulties that Attributing Existence to «Hidden» (...)
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    The Realism and Evolutionary Personalism of N.O. Lossky.Petr Abramov & Andrei Ivanov - 2018 - Sophia 59 (4):767-778.
    The paper is devoted to Nikolay Lossky who was one of the leading Russian philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. We demonstrate the interrelationship between three aspects of Lossky’s philosophy: realism in the theory of knowledge, hierarchical personalism, and supra-naturalistic concept of evolution. We pay attention to the contemporary relevance of Lossky, and we discuss and critique his ideas in light of those of other philosophers. Lossky acknowledges that the subject interacts with being itself and that (...)
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  41. The case against direct realism.Paul H. Griffiths - manuscript
    Analytic philosophy took a wrong turn when it rehabilitated direct realism. From the perspective of cognitive science, it seems that we can have the directness-claim or the realism-claim but not both together. Up until the mid-1900s the vast majority of philosophers dismissed direct realism as hopelessly naïve, but by the close of the century it had become the orthodoxy within analytic philosophy. In contrast, mainstream cognitive science has remained constant in its opposition to the directness-claim, and when (...)
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    Realism and Ultimate Explanation.Theodore A. Young - 1981 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 55:159.
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    External Realism as a Non-Epistemic Thesis1.Lukáš Zámečník - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19:25-30.
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  44. Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge.Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - Mind 25 (100):537-541.
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    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 (...)
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  46. Naive Realism, Scientific Realism, and Contextualism.Nicla Vassallo - 2005 - Rivista di Estetica (3):296-306.
  47. Realism is dead.M. Norton Wise - 2005 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 86 (1):269-286.
  48. Realism, Science and Emancipation.Colin Wight - 2006 - In Kathryn Dean, Realism, philosophy and social science. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 32.
  49. Anti-realism, Timeless Truth, and N ineteen Eighty-Four.Crispin Wright - 1988 - In ¸ Itewright:Rmt. pp. 176--203.
     
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    A critical realist exploration of entrepreneurship as complex, reflexive and myriad.Lakshman Wimalasena, Laura Galloway & Isla Kapasi - 2021 - Journal of Critical Realism 20 (3):257-279.
    This paper builds on previous studies that explore entrepreneurship from a critical realist morphogenetic perspective, and incorporates the neglected aspect of how agential reflexivity shapes entre...
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