The scientific realism/antirealism debate in contemporary philosophy of science is about theoretical knowledge, that is, knowledge that is supposed to be about so-called "unobservables." This includes theoretical entities, such as neutrinos and genes, as well as theoretical processes, such as ...
The decision whether to have a realist or an anti-realist attitude towards scientific hypotheses is interpreted in this paper as a choice that scientists themselves have to face in their work as scientists, rather than as a ‘philosophical’ problem. Scientists’ choices between realism and instrume...
Continuing the humanist traditions of previous art and combining them with a new socialist content, socialist realism is a new type of artistic consciousness. Its innovativeness is linked with Marxism’s contribution to materialist philosophy—the affirmation of the role of activity that transforms the...
Deconstruction is best approached as a form of radical scepticism and antifoundationalism. Derrida takes an oppositional stance towards Western philosophy from Plato onwards for its unacknowledged commitment to the 'metaphysics of presence' , the belief that meaning is essentially stable and determinate...
The philosophy In 1941, a poet named Eli Siegel created a philosophy that he called Aesthetic Realism, and recruited a group of devotees to promote it as the one great truth.Siegel died in 1978, but his followers are still trying to get the world to realize that AR can (supposedly) solv...
Unlike Berkeley’s philosophy, Multisense Realism does not assume a separate entity (God) that is required to observe experiences. There may be God, and or gods, but they too are types of conscious experience and not stand alone things-that-are-conscious. God cannot be unconscious and cannot...
mathematical realismmathematical anti-realismobjectivityWittgensteinPutnamThis article has no associated abstract. ( fix it )doi:10.21825/philosophica.82415Pïeranna GaravasoDepartment of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent UniversityPhilosophica
Interdependence Functionalism David Mitrany Transnational ties between countries to foster peace Cooperation via technical expertise Leave politicians out of it Hope that cooperation will “spill-over” into other areas. Will bind states ever closer together Philosophy behind the EU ...
Unlike Berkeley’s philosophy, Multisense Realism does not assume a separate entity (God) that is required to observe experiences. There may be God, and or gods, but they too are types of conscious experience and not stand alone things-that-are-conscious. God cannot be unconscious and cannot...
First, the characters must carry the philosophy of viewing their past and Russia’s past not just from 1736 Words 7 Pages Better Essays Preview Meresyev's Socialist Realism idea of Socialist Realism, an element seen prominently throughout Polevoi novel. Socialist Realism is defined by art that ...