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(In)effective realism?
Matthias Egg (
2021 ) argues that scientific realism can be reconciled with quantum mechanics and its foundational underdetermination by focusing... -
Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual...
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving...
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Normative realism and Brentanian accounts of fittingness
Brentano is often considered the originator of the fitting-attitudes analysis of value, on which to be valuable is to be that which it’s fitting to...
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Critical and Pragmatic Naturalisms: Some Consequences of Direct Realism in John Dewey and Roy Wood Sellars
Some consequences of direct realism and William James’s philosophy of mind are considered in terms of American naturalism as seen in the debate...
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Categorial modal realism
The current conception of the plurality of worlds is founded on a set theoretic understanding of possibilia. This paper provides an alternative...
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Dosis sola facit venenum: reconceptualising biological realism
Richard Levins’s (Am Sci 54(4):421–431, 1966) paper sets a landmark for the significance of scientific model-making in biology. Colombo and Palacios...
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Quasi-structural Realism
Devising an appropriate formal framework for structural realism has long been an issue in the development of this position. Décio Krause has...
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The Vedāntic Realism of Rasvihari Das
This paper examines the realist interpretation of Vedānta that Rasvihari Das explicated in two of his celebrated treatises, namely, “The Theory of...
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Madhyamaka and Ontic Structural Realism
I’ll argue that one particular argument of Nāgārjuna’s against causation in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā deserves careful consideration from the...
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Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds
There are realist and antirealist interpretations of the free energy principle (FEP). This paper aims to chart out a structural realist...
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Scientific Realism: A Defence
In the present chapter, I propose a way of defending epistemological scientific realism that differs from the usual explanationist strategies....
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Dispositional realism without dispositional essences
Dispositional realism, as we shall use the term, is a non-reductive, anti-Humean approach to dispositions which says that natural properties confer...
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Hybrid Modal Realism Debugged
In this paper, I support a hybrid view regarding the metaphysics of worlds. I endorse Lewisian Modal Realism for possible worlds (LMR). My aim is to...
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Gibbard on Quasi-realism and Global Expressivism
In recent work Allan Gibbard claims to be both a local quasi-realist, in Blackburn’s sense, and a global expressivist. His local quasi-realism rests...
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Having a Cake and Eating It Too? Direct Realism and Objective Identity in Descartes
Descartes holds that ideas have or contain objective reality of their objects, so that the idea of the sun is the sun itself existing in the...
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Naïve Realism as Psychosemantics
For those who think the notion of representation plays a critical role in visual perception, a pressing question—at least for those who are...
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Constitution, evidence, and an argument for realism: responses to Bird’s Knowing Science
What sorts of aims, or goals, are constitutive of science? How does scientific evidence relate to the knowledge that science produces? And can the No...
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Realism and the point at infinity: The end of the line?
Philosophers of mathematics often rely on the historical progress of mathematics in support of mathematical realism. These histories typically build...
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New Ontological Foundations for Extended Minds: Causal Powers Realism
In this paper, we describe causal powers realism as a conjunction of four claims: causal powers are not reducible to counterfactuals; they are...