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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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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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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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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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Epistemological Realism and Cognitive Science
The author shows that the conception of epistemological realism as a contemporary variant of epistemological realism continues the realism tradition...
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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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An Inverted Qualia Argument for Direct Realism
This essay extends my “invisible disagreement” argument for Color Realism (2017) to formulate an argument for Direct Realism. It uses a variation of...
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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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How (not) to integrate scientific and moral realism
In this essay, I seek to clarify and defend a unified account of realism, i.e. a conception of realism that does not only apply to philosophy of...
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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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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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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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Three arguments for wave function realism
Wave function realism is an interpretative framework for quantum theories which recommends taking the central ontology of these theories to consist...
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Naïve realism, imagination and hallucination
Naïve realists hold that the phenomenology of veridical perceptual experience is in part constituted by environmental objects that the subject is...
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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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Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism
This paper reconsiders what implications quantum decoherence has for Karen Barad’s agential realism. In contrast with the recent claim of Thomas...
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Structural Realism and Agnosticism about Objects
Among scientific realists and anti-realists, there is a well-known, perennial dispute about the reality and knowability of unobservable objects. This...
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The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds
The label realist in the debate about natural kinds can imply different things. Many authors in this debate subscribe to views that are in some way...
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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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Russell and American Realism
American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from...