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Unfamiliarity in Logic? How to Unravel McSweeney’s Dilemma for Logical Realism
Logical realism is the metaphysical view asserting that the facts of logic exist and are mind-and-language independent. McSweeney argues that if...
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Critical Direct Realism? New Realism, Roy Wood Sellars, and Wilfrid Sellars
The overall contention of this paper, conducted through an examination of the idea of a ‘critical direct realism’ as this was developed across the...
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Pragmatic realism: towards a reconciliation of enactivism and realism
This paper addresses some apparent philosophical tensions between realism and enactivism by means of Charles Peirce’s pragmatism. Enactivism’s...
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The cost of closure: logical realism, anti-exceptionalism, and theoretical equivalence
Philosophers of science often assume that logically equivalent theories are theoretically equivalent. I argue that two theses, anti-exceptionalism...
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Convergences and Divergences Between the “new realism” and the Realism of Evandro Agazzi
The objective of this paper is to analyze the convergences and divergences between two conceptions of realism: Markus Gabriel’s “new realism” and...
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Critical Realism and Technocracy – RW Sellars’ Radical Philosophy in its Context
The victory of realism over idealism at the start of the twentieth century, and of scientific realism over logical empiricism and pragmatism in the...
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Physicists’ views on scientific realism
Do physicists believe that general relativity is true , and that electrons and phonons exist , and if so, in what sense? To what extent does the...
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A Historical Perspective in Support of Direct Realism
In this paper I argue that Direct realism is less prone to internal incoherence as a theory of knowledge than alternative theories. The theory of...
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Is Reflection Real According to Abhinavagupta? Dynamic Realism Versus Naïve Realism
This essay is one more attempt of understanding the non-dual philosophical position of Abhinavagupta viz-a-viz the problem of reflection. Since when...
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Entity Realism Meets Perspectivism
Relying on the notion of “overlap** perspectives,” this paper argues that entity realism and perspectivism are complementary. According to entity...
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Haptic realism for neuroscience
Recent work in philosophy of science has shown how the challenges posed by extremely complex systems require that scientists employ a range of...
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Russell and American Realism
American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from...
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The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged ‘pragmatic turn’ in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by van...
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Naïve Realism and the Relationality of Phenomenal Character
Naïve realism (also called ‘relationalism’ or ‘object view’) is becoming increasingly popular, but the specific outline of its commitments remains...
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Controversial views and moral realism
It is argued that the emergence of controversial views in discussions of theoretical medicine and bioethics is best explained by the assumption of...
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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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Logical Instrumentalism and Anti-exceptionalism about Logic
This paper critically examines logical instrumentalism as it has been put forth recently in the anti-exceptionalism about logic debate. I will argue...
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The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism
Putnam coined what is now known as the no miracles argument “[t]he positive argument for realism”. In its opposition, he put an argument that by his...
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Realism about tense and atemporality
Realists about tense, or A-theorists of time, believe that some of the facts that fundamentally constitute reality are tensed, and most of them seem...
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Scientific Realism from a Polysystemic View of Physical Theories and their Functioning
One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially physics) is the opposition between Realism and...