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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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Non-defensible middle ground for experimental realism: Why we are justified to believe in colored quarks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Experimental realism aims at striking a middle ground between scientific realism and anti-realism, between the success of experimental physics it would explain and the realism about scientific theories it would supplant. This middle ground reinstates the
Massimi, M
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“Miraculous realism” in Zaitsev’s, Shmelev’s, Bunin’s prose (in context of magical realism, fantastic realism, mystical realism, spiritual realism, etc.)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2019
There are many terms that denote the invasion of the inexplicable into a realistic narrative, such as: magical realism, fantastic realism, mystical realism, spiritual realism, transcendental realism, metaphysical realism, Christian realism, etc.
Vitaliy Alexandrovich Gavrikov
doaj   +1 more source

Resisting Reductive Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Ethicists struggle to take reductive views seriously. They also have trouble conceiving of some supervenience failures.
Laskowski, N. G.
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Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought

open access: yesFAT*, 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Park, Seungbae
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Two Dogmas of Structural Realism. A Confirmation of a Philosophical Death Foretold

open access: yesCrítica, 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
doaj   +1 more source

VR Realism Scale-Revalidation of contemporary VR headsets on a Polish sample.

open access: yesPLoS 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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Nuovo Realismo 2016

open access: yesCoSMO, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Making metaethics work for AI: realism and anti-realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Engineering an artificial intelligence to play an advisory role in morally charged decision making will inevitably introduce meta-ethical positions into the design.
Frank, Lily E., Klincewicz, Michal
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