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Critical Realism and the Metaphysics of Justice [PDF]

Journal of Critical Realism, 2016
This essay concerns the problems of guilt that emerge in connection with genocide discussed after the Second World War by Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry and Primo Levi. It looks at the different forms of guilt: of perpetrators, bystanders, victims who became perpetrators, and of collective guilt.
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Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
In this paper I address the problem of justifying Steven French’s eliminative ontic structural realism by the metaphysical underdetermination argument.
Damian Luty
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Preferring Ontic Structural Realism over Epistemic Structural Realism in Light of Semantically Interpreted Theories

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
The aims of the article are related to comparing two versions of structural realism: epistemic structural realism (ESR) and ontic structural realism (OSR).
Damian Luty
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Evaluating the Metaphysical Realism of Étienne Gilson [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2015
While there is an absence of treatises devoted to the question of ens ut primum cognitum, there is no shortage of brief and implicit treatments; indeed, nearly every Thomist of the past seven centuries seems to have at least something to say about the ...
Brian Kemple
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Realism in Theology and Metaphysics [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract Since the early 2000s, increasing attention has been paid in two separate disciplines to questions about realism and ontological commitment. The disciplines are analytic metaphysics on the one hand, and theology on the other. Chapter 1 discusses two arguments for the conclusion that realism in theology and metaphysics—that is, a
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Belief‐Ful Realism and Scientific Realism

Zygon, 2001
Despite tensions between Tillich's category of belief‐ful realism and a view of science that embraces metaphysical and epistemological realism, a constructive relationship can be developed between the two.
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Reasoning about Non-Actual Possibilities. Problems with the Douven-Putnam Model-Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism

Crítica, 2019
Igor Douven has offered an original reconstruction and defence of Putnam's model-theoretic argument against metaphysical realism. Douven's construal has notable exegetical virtues, since it makes sense of some assumptions in Putnam's argument which his ...
Manuel Pérez Otero
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Emerging Realist Tendencies in New Turkish Cinema through Magical, Spiritual, and Anthropocene Lenses

Türkiye Film Araştırmaları Dergisi
This study examines the emerging forms of reality through the lenses of Magical Realism, Spiritual Realism, and Anthropocene Realism in contemporary Turkish cinema.
İclal Can Gürbüz
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The Interpretive Constant: the Status of Material Objects in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2012
Stevens’s poems grant a curious status to material reality. Famously abstract, they refuse to abandon the realm of the material. Rather, “material reality” is inseparable from “abstract” concepts.
Kacper Bartczak
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Science, Metaphysics, and Scientific Realism

Polish Journal of Philosophy, 2011
The paper can be logically divided into two parts. In the first part I distinguish two kinds of metaphysics: basic metaphysics, which affects scientific theories, and a second kind, which is an effect of interpretations of these theories. I try to show the strong mutual relations between metaphysics and science and to point out that the basic ...
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