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Neutral Realism: A New Metaphysical Approach to Representation
Philosophies, 2023 Metaphysics seeks an account of fundamental reality as it is independent of any observer or point of view. As such, one problem it faces is that any such account is necessarily created by some observer from some point of view.
Heather Dyke, Dyke Heather
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Internal Realism: Putnam\'s Alternative to Metaphysical Realism [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2014 Hilary Putnam, who was once one of the representatives and proponents of scientific and metaphysical realism, became an unrelenting opponent of metaphysical realism during the mid-70s.
J Akbari Takhtameshlou, M Golshani
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No God, no God's Eye: A Quasi-Putnamian Argument for Monotheism
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Metaphysical realism is the thesis that “the world consists of some fixed totality of mind-independent objects” such that “there is exactly one true and complete description of 'the way the world is'”.
Åke Gafvelin
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Putnam's Meaning-Based Version of Ontological Pluralism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 In the discussion of ontological pluralism, little attention has been paid to Putnam. However, he can be considered one of the leaders of this approach.The following article pursues Putnam's view on ontological pluralism,that is, pursuing the procedure ...
Mohammad Hossein Esfandiari
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Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2021 The article deals with the problem of the return of metaphysics within the framework of the ontological turn of philosophy and the situation of post-metaphysical thinking. The conditions for the possibility of modern metaphysical discourse in the projects of empirical metaphysics and historical ontology are revealed.
Vitaly G. Kosykhin, Svetlana M. Malkina
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Putnam, Conceptual Relativity, and Metaphysical Realism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2017 Rejecting metaphysical realism (MR) is a basic element in Putnam's Philosophy. He introduces two arguments against MR: Model-theoretic (MT) and brain-in-vat (BIV).
hamed ghadiri, mohammad saeedi mehr
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An Internal Incompatibility in Internal Realism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2021 During the 80s, Hilary Putnam developed a metaphysical viewpoint called 'internal realism'. Its slogan said, "the mind and the world together make up the mind and the world." According to Putnam, internal realism has two elements: 1) conceptual ...
Hamed Ghadiri
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Phenomenology and metaphysical realism [PDF]
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 2018 This paper examines the relationship between totalitarianism and the metaphysical illusions on which it rests. Phenomenological investigation is claimed to loosen the grip of totalitarian ideology by exposing its origins in the 'resurrective' illusions that seek to overcome the impact of collective trauma.
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 The paper defends the so-called extended modal realism, a theory according to which there are concrete impossible worlds. Firstly, modal realism is presented.
Martin Vacek
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH
Problemos, 1998 The paper deals with the relation between realism and (neo)pragmatism in the contemporary philosophy of science by investigating two rival positions: Ilkka Niiniluoto’s "critical scientific realism" and Hilary Putnam’s "internal realism." The crucial ...
Sami Pihlström
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