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Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism
Journal of Political Ideologies, 2012In recent years some political theorists have been promoting ‘political realism’ as an alternative to the mainstream perspectives fostered by what is perceived as the ideal theory tendency embedded...
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1996
Abstract Disputes about realism should be construed as disputes not about a class of entities, but about the truth‐value of the statements in a given class. For what reality consists in is not determined just by what objects there are, but by what propositions hold good: the world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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Abstract Disputes about realism should be construed as disputes not about a class of entities, but about the truth‐value of the statements in a given class. For what reality consists in is not determined just by what objects there are, but by what propositions hold good: the world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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2009
Lo studio presenta una panoramica delle varie forme di realismo elaborate tra XIII e XV secolo, mostrando l'importanza che per gli ultimi sviluppi del realismo medievale hanno avuto le critiche dei nominalisti ed in particolare di ...
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Lo studio presenta una panoramica delle varie forme di realismo elaborate tra XIII e XV secolo, mostrando l'importanza che per gli ultimi sviluppi del realismo medievale hanno avuto le critiche dei nominalisti ed in particolare di ...
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Semantic Realism and Aesthetic Realism
SubStance, 1993The recent boom in cognitive science has renewed interest in the following question: is literature a means of knowledge? Language was a means of knowledge, even before the notion of literature appeared. Our most ancient traditions even make the language arts an instrument of divine knowledge: through the intercession of the muse we see the vision of ...
Francois Rastier, Rachael Ann Siciliano
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Quine on Objects: Realism or Anti‐Realism?
Theoria, 2012AbstractW. V. Quine describes himself as a “robust realist” about physical objects in the external world. This realism about objects is due to Quine's naturalism. On the other hand, Quine's naturalistic epistemology involves a conception of objects as posits that we introduce in our theories about the world.
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A TRUTHMAKING ACCOUNT OF REALISM AND ANTI‐REALISM
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2012AbstractRealism and anti‐realism about a domain of thought are metaphysical theses that involve the natures of the truthmakers in that domain and the truthmaking relation that is operant in the domain. Truthmaker theory is not exclusive territory for realists: anti‐realist views are also best understood in terms of how they understand truthmakers and ...
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2023
This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.
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This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.
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Philosophia Reformata, 2006
In my book God’s Call1 I gave an historical account of the debate within twentieth century analytic philosophy between moral realism and expressivism. Moral realism is the view that moral properties like goodness or cruelty exist independently of our making judgements that things have such properties.
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In my book God’s Call1 I gave an historical account of the debate within twentieth century analytic philosophy between moral realism and expressivism. Moral realism is the view that moral properties like goodness or cruelty exist independently of our making judgements that things have such properties.
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2021
This chapter addresses scientific realism. After the heyday of empiricism in the interwar period and its immediate aftermath, many critical reactions to empiricism seemed to suggest scientific realism. It was widely agreed that scientific theories make references to things that cannot be directly observed (or at least seen), and thus emerged the issue ...
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This chapter addresses scientific realism. After the heyday of empiricism in the interwar period and its immediate aftermath, many critical reactions to empiricism seemed to suggest scientific realism. It was widely agreed that scientific theories make references to things that cannot be directly observed (or at least seen), and thus emerged the issue ...
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2009
In The Politics of Friendship (1997), Derrida describes the democratic as a pact between a band of brothers that is made in the name of the father. Derrida’s approach to this question cannot be fully appreciated without reference to Sigmund Freud’s controversial book, Totem and Taboo (1918), which Derrida relies upon as a kind of ur-text offering a ...
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In The Politics of Friendship (1997), Derrida describes the democratic as a pact between a band of brothers that is made in the name of the father. Derrida’s approach to this question cannot be fully appreciated without reference to Sigmund Freud’s controversial book, Totem and Taboo (1918), which Derrida relies upon as a kind of ur-text offering a ...
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