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Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought
FAT*, 2020 Although computer scientists are eager to help address social problems, the field faces a growing awareness that many well-intentioned applications of algorithms in social contexts have led to significant harm.
Ben Green, Salomé Viljöen
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International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021 Research on creation of virtual humans enables increasing automatization of their behavior, including synthesis of verbal and nonverbal behavior. As the achievable realism of different aspects of agent design evolves asynchronously, it is important to ...
Ylva Ferstl +4 more
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Two Dogmas of Structural Realism. A Confirmation of a Philosophical Death Foretold
Crítica, 2019 Twenty years ago John Worrall offered an alleged non-standard viable form of scientific realism under the name structural realism. Structural realism was supposed to be both an alternative to standard scientific realism and viable form of realism.
Andrés Rivadulla
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VR Realism Scale-Revalidation of contemporary VR headsets on a Polish sample.
PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper presents validation of the VR Simulation Realism Scale on a Polish sample. The scale enables a self-report measurement of perceived realism of a virtual environment in four main aspects of such realism-scene realism, audience behavior realism,
Natalia Lipp +5 more
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CoSMO, 2016 The essay presents the traits of what has recently been called new realism in philosophy, arguing that this new trend aims at engaging with the existence of certain classes of objects, trying to avoid devolving to scientific thinking all questions about ...
Maurizio Ferraris
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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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New Realism as Positive Realism [PDF]
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2014 In this essay I try to give some overall statements in order to show that new realism is to be understood as a kind of positive philosophy. Against constructivism, I argue that there is a prevalence of the objects themselves on our understanding of them (
Maurizio Ferraris
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Noûs, 2017 AbstractThis paper explores the impact of quantification into predicate position on the metaphysics of properties, arguing that two familiar debates about properties are fundamentally altered by recasting them in a second‐order setting. Two theories of properties are outlined, differing over whether the existence of properties is expressed using first ...
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Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2020 We propose that the universe is nonlocal and that the appropriate worldview or paradigm for this understanding is nonlocal realism. Currently the worldview of local realism guides and frames the understanding and interpretations of science. Local realism
Andrew Lohrey, Bruce Boreham
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Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a late and troublesome version of these challenges.
Amir Sharifipour +2 more
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