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Realism: Philosophical and Scientific [PDF]

Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2020
What kind of realism - if any - are we allowed to endorse? It is often stated that, in order to provide realism with a solid foundation, we need having recourse to a reality that is totally independent of thought (and let alone of language).
Michele Marsonet
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Realism and Instrumentalism in Philosophical Explanation

Metaphysics, 2019
There is a salient contrast in how theoretical representations are regarded. Some are regarded as revealing the nature of what they represent, as in familiar cases of theoretical identification in physical chemistry where water is represented as hydrogen
Ori Simchen
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Moral Realism and Philosophical Angst [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract This chapter 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
Joshua Blanchard
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Étienne Gilson’s Philosophical Realism / Realizm filozoficzny w ujęciu Étienne Gilsona [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2017
This paper attempts to analyze realist philosophy as the way of knowing reality in the thought of Étienne Gilson. The French Philosopher was a defender of philosophical realism who rationally justified the thesis about knowing things existing in the ...
Natalia Kunat
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Logic Realism Theory: Philosophical Foundations

Logic Realism Theory (LRT) proposes that the Three Fundamental Laws of Logic (3FLL)—Identity, Non-Contradiction, and Excluded Middle—are not merely rules of reasoning but ontological constraints constitutive of physical distinguishability. The core evidence is an asymmetry: we can conceive of 3FLL violations, yet physical reality never produces them ...
Longmire, James (JD)
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Speculative Realism for Philosophical Millennials

Политическая концептология: журнал метадисциплинарных исследований
In this article I discuss the prospective generation of philosophers born in the mid-80s and early 90s of the last century. I associate it with the newest philosophical movement, “speculative realism.” The main thesis of this article: the named generation of philosophers, with the help of the anti-correlationist thesis of speculative realism, is trying
B.V. Podoroga
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Critical Realism: Philosophical Origin and Methodological Principles [PDF]

Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒ī
During the past few decades, social sciences and humanities has been involved in numerous methodological and theoretical debates that is described as the paradigms war between positivists, interpretativists and critics.
Ahmad Mohammad Poor, Mahdi Alizadeh, Mahdi Rezayee   +2 more
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Philosophical realism: the pinafore stage of existence

Philosophy Journal
In spite of the fact that ideas in line with the world-outlook format of realism (as also those in the format of irrealism) come back already to Antiquity, it was not earlier than from the end of the 18th century that the metaphilosophical concept under discussion has begun to evolve.
Vladimir Shokhin
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Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives [PDF]

İnsan & Toplum Dergisi (The Journal of Human & Society), 2012
Kayhan Ali
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Division of Philosophical Rationalities based on the Way of Formation and Realism from Allameh Tabatabai’s Viewpoint [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2022
The main concern in the discussion of philosophical rationalities is epistemology. Secondary rationalities have an origin in the mind, the question of whether or not these concepts apply outside the mind is important.
Farang Qobadi, Hossein Houshangi
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