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Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I challenge and adjudicate between the two positions that have come to prominence in the scientific realism debate: deployment realism and structural realism.
Lyons, Timothy D.
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The explanationist argument for moral realism [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I argue that the explanationist argument in favour of moral realism fails. According to this argument, the ability of putative moral properties to feature in good explanations provides strong evidence for, or entails, the metaphysical ...
Neil Sinclair, Nottingham Ng Rd
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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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Meaning, moral realism, and the importance of morality [PDF]
, 2020 Many philosophers have suspected that the normative importance of morality depends on moral realism. In this paper, I defend a version of this suspicion: I argue that if teleological forms of moral realism, those that posit an objective purpose to human ...
Zhao, Michael
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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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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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Fikrah: Jurnal Ilmu Aqidah dan Studi Keagamaan, 2023 This article attempts to show Mulla Sadra’s model of realism by tracing it through his philosophical principles, especially the principle of Ittihad 'Aqil wa Ma'qul (subject-object unity). Furthermore, the study of the Sadra realism model, which is based
Kholid Al Walid
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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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Realizm i idealizm: struktura problemu (Realism and Idealism: the Structure of the Debate) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2009 The aim of the article is to systematize fundamental concepts involved in the philosophical debate on realism and idealism. In the first (historical) part distinction between appearance and reality (which has its roots in ancient philosophy) is presented
Stanisław Judycki
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Rethinking naive realism [PDF]
, 2018 Perceptions are externally-directed - they present us with a mind-independent reality, and thus contribute to our abilities to think about this reality, and to know what is objectively the case.
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