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In Defense of Convergent Realism

Philosophy of Science, 1982
Many realists have maintained that the success of scientific theories can be explained only if they may be regarded as approximately true. Laurens Laudan has in turn contended that a necessary condition for a theory's being approximately true is that its central terms refer, and since many successful theories of the past have employed central terms ...
Clyde L. Hardin, Alexander Rosenberg
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Cost realism in defense contracting

Naval Research Logistics, 1989
In this article we report and evaluate a technique developed by the U.S. Navy for the purpose of choosing winners of Research and Development (R&D) contracts from among several competing contractors. The technique is intended to discourage “buy-in” bidding (i.e., submitting unrealistically low bids for the purpose of winning the bidding competition ...
K. T. Wallenius, N. K. Womer
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Offensive versus Defensive Realism

Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2019
This article approaches Russia’s strategy of countering the United States indirectly by way of intermediate states. It is concerned with the reasons why Russia decided to engage in the Syrian conflict in 2015 and, from this perspective, the real goals of Russia’s policy in the region.
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The methodological defense of realism scrutinized

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2015
I revisit an older defense of scientific realism, the methodological defense, a defense developed by both Popper and Feyerabend. The methodological defense of realism concerns the attitude of scientists, not philosophers of science. The methodological defense is as follows: a commitment to realism leads scientists to pursue the truth, which in turn is ...
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Functional Realism: A Defense of Narrative Medicine

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2013
In this paper we (1) define and describe the practice of narrative medicine, (2) reveal the need for narrative medicine by exposing the presuppositions that give rise to its discounting, including a reductive empiricism and a strict dichotomy between scientific fact and narrative value, (3) show evidence of the effects of education in narrative ...
Seth, Vannatta, Jerry, Vannatta
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Structural Realism/Offensive and Defensive Realism

2017
Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz in his 1979 book Theory of International Politics, structural realism is subdivided into two factions: offensive realism and defensive realism.
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Defensible Territory for Entity Realism

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2001
In the face of argument to the contrary, it is shown that there is defensible middle ground available for entity realism, between the extremes of scientific realism and empiricist antirealism. Cartwright's ([1983]) earlier argument for defensible middle ground between these extremes, which depended crucially on the viability of an underdeveloped ...
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In Defense of Convergent Realism

Journal Of pan-Korean Philosophical Society, 2018
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In Defense of Color Realism

Acta Analytica, 2019
In this article, I argue that popular explanatory frameworks in perceptual psychology suggest the truth of color realism. I focus on perceptual judgments and their evidential basis: namely perceptual representation. I first draw a distinction between two sorts of normativities with respect to which we can evaluate representational capacities and ...
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Against a Defense of Fictional Realism

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2014
According to fictional realism, the realm of objects includes fictional characters. In ‘Against Fictional Realism’, Anthony Everett argues against fictional realism, in part on the grounds that it is committed to the claim that fictional characters can be indeterminately identical.
Ben Caplan, Cathleen Muller
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