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    Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences.Timothy Rutzou & George Steinmetz (eds.) - 2018 - Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
    Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned. Meanwhile, the place of values in research is often uneasily passed over in silence. The inattention to, and loss of, the intersection between these different disciplines and their subject matters, leaves our investigations all the more (...)
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    Wh Newton-Smith.I. Varieties Of Realism - 1989 - In R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge, Companion to the History of Modern Science. Routledge.
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    Dagmar Barnouw, Critical Realism: History, Photography, and The Work of Siegfried Kracauer.Lydia Goehr - 1996 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4):403-414.
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    Anti-Realism, History and the Past.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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  5. Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and History and Philosophy of Science.James R. Beebe & Finnur Dellsén - 2020 - Philosophy of Science 87 (2):336-364.
    We report the results of a study that investigated the views of researchers working in seven scientific disciplines and in history and philosophy of science in regard to four hypothesized dimensions of scientific realism. Among other things, we found that natural scientists tended to express more strongly realist views than social scientists, that history and philosophy of science scholars tended to express more antirealist views than natural scientists, that van Fraassen’s characterization of scientific realism failed to (...)
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    Realism, Radical Constructivism, and Film History.Nick Redfern - 2006 - Essays in Philosophy 7 (2):187-199.
    As a technology and an art form perceived to be capable of reproducing the world, it has long been thought that the cinema has a natural affinity with reality. In this essay I consider the Realist theory of film history out forward by Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery from the perspective of Radical Constructivism. I argue that such a Realist theory cannot provide us with a viable approach to film history as it presents a flawed description of (...)
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    The Mass Ornament: Weimar EssaysCritical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer.Lydia Goehr, Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin & Dagmar Barnouw - 1996 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4):397.
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  8. Pt. 2. the age of faith to the age of reason: Lecture 1. Aquinas' summa theologica, the thomist sythesis and its political and social context ; lecture 2. more's utopia, reason and social justice ; lecture 3. Machiavelli's the Prince, political realism, political science, and the renaissance ; lecture 4. Bacon's new organon, the call for a new science, guest lecture / by Alan Kors ; lecture 5. Descartes' epistemology and the mind-body problem ; lecture 6. Hobbes' leviathan, of man, guest lecture / by Dennis Dalton ; lecture 7. Hobbes' leviathan, of the commonwealth, guest lecture by. [REVIEW]Dennis Dalton, Metaphysics Lecture 8Spinoza'S. Ethics, the Path To Salvation, Guest Lecture by Alan Kors Lecture 9the Newtonian Revolution, Lecture 10the Early Enlightenment, Viso'S. New Science of History The Search for the Laws of History, Lecture 11Pascal'S. Pensees & Lecture 12the Philosophy of G. W. Liebniz - 2000 - In Darren Staloff, Louis Markos, Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Phillip Cary, Dennis Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Jeremy Shearmur, Robert C. Solomon, Robert Kane, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Mark W. Risjord & Douglas Kellner, Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Great Courses.
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    Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature.J. Leland Miller Professor of American History Literature and Eloquence Michael Davitt Bell & Michael Davitt Bell - 2001 - University of Chicago Press.
    In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell's influential essays on nineteenth-century American writers—originally written for such landmark projects as The Columbia Literary History of the United States and The Cambridge History of American Literature—are gathered here with a major new essay on Richard Wright. Throughout, Bell revisits issues of genre with an eye toward the unexpected details of authors' lives, and invites us (...)
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    Towards a Realist Philosophy of History.Adam Timmins - 2022 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical—at least in contemporary historical theory—view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past.
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    Realism, Conventionalism, and the History of Science.Olaf Tollefsen - 1982 - New Scholasticism 56 (3):292-305.
  12. Realism for Shopkeepers| Behaviouralist Notes on Constructive Empiricism in An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.Jm Nicholas - 1989 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116:459-476.
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    Memory, History, and Pluripotency: A Realist View of Literary Studies.Martin Goffeney - 2013 - Cosmos and History 9 (2):44-59.
    Speculative realism has, over the course of its rapid and controversial emergence in the past decade, been frequently criticized from the perspective of historical materialism, for its putative reliance on abstraction and eschewal of a sufficiently rigorous ideological alignment. This paper takes such critiques as a starting point for an examination of the contributions recent thought in the area of speculative realism has to offer the study of the humanities – specifically, the study of literature and literary (...). In particular, contemporary realist thought has the potential to enable scholars of literature to move beyond the anthropocentric and specialized notions of history as an exclusively cultural entity, which have dominated the discipline since the twentieth century. Paying especially close attention to the work of Graham Harman and Manuel DeLanda, it is my argument that emergent realist philosophy offers literary scholars a set of powerful conceptual tools which can be put toward the work of accounting for the hitherto neglected ontological status of the literary text – illuminating the status of the text as a particular variety of real and physical object that participates in a system of real and physical history and memory. (shrink)
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    Process Realism in Physics: How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology.William Penn - 2023 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the core claim is that in order for a scientific model to be minimally empirically adequate, that model must describe real experimental processes and dynamics. Any additional inferences from processes to things, substances or objects are (...)
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  15. Realism in the Study of the History of Ideas.Ian Shapiro - 1982 - History of Political Thought 3 (3):535-578.
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    Metaphysical Realism and History.Norman Melchert - 1986 - Analysis 46 (1):36 - 38.
    Could an "ideal theory" be false? metaphysical realism requires an affirmative answer. The question has usually been discussed in terms of physical theory. I argue that if we shift ground to historical narrative, We can be virtually certain that some "ideal stories" not only "can" be false, But "will" be false. If this argument is correct, Metaphysical realism is almost certainly true.
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    History and Realism under the Condition of History.Joseph Margolis - 1995 - Dialogue and Universalism 5 (11):5-20.
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    A Realistic Conception of History.W. F. Whitehouse - 1982 - Aquila Publications.
  19. The History of Philosophy Conceived as a Struggle Between Nominalism and Realism.Cornelis De Waal - 2010 - Semiotica 2010 (179):295-313.
    In this article I trace some of the main tenets of the struggle between nominalism and realism as identified by John Deely in his Four ages of understanding. The aim is to assess Deely’s claim that the Age of Modernity was nominalist and that the coming age, the Age of Postmodernism — which he portrays as a renaissance of the late middle ages and as starting with Peirce — is realist. After a general overview of how Peirce interpreted the (...)
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  20. Scientific realism and the history of science.Michael Esfeld - 2005 - Philosophy 1:1-15.
    The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism and the underdetermination thesis as well as from semantic holism and the incommensurability thesis. Against the first challenge, it is argued that there are other criteria besides agreement with experience that enable a rational evaluation of competing theories. Against the second challenge, it is argued that at most a thesis of local incommensurability can be defended that is compatible with a minimal version of scientific (...), namely conjectural realism. However, in order to establish a fully-fledged scientific realism, one has to refute the local incommensurability thesis as well, showing how a comparison is possible on the level of the proper concepts of the theories in question. The paper examines the prospects for such a comparison, distinguishing three cases. (shrink)
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    Realism and revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the performance of history.Elfrieda Dubois - 1991 - History of European Ideas 13 (5):640-641.
  22. A Realist View of Physics, Logic and History.Karl Popper - 1970 - In Hermann Bondi, Wolfgang Yourgrau & Allen duPont Breck, Physics, logic, and history. New York,: Plenum Press. pp. 18.
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  23. Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science.Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers (eds.) - 2021 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth. But they have long faced historical challenges: various episodes across history appear to demonstrate that even strongly supported scientific theories can be overturned and left behind. In response, realists have developed new positions and arguments. As a result of specific challenges from the history of science, and realist responses, we find ourselves with an ever increasing data-set bearing on the (possible) relationship between science and (...)
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  24. History and the Contemporary Scientific Realism Debate.Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers - 2021 - In Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers, Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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    Science: Realism, criticism, history.Friedrich Engels Whewell, Max Weber & Emile Durkheim Marx - 1991 - In Terrell Carver, The Cambridge Companion to Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 106.
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    Realism, structurism, and history.Christopher Lloyd - 1989 - Theory and Society 18 (4):451-494.
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    Intelligible design: a realistic approach to the philosophy and history of science.Julio Antonio Gonzalo & Manuel María Carreira (eds.) - 2013 - New Jersey: World Scientific.
    1. Modern science in historical perspective -- On the origins of modern science -- The post-Renaissance revolution : the New Science -- Frank Sherwood Taylor : the man who was converted by Galileo -- The limits of science -- Proofs and demonstrations -- On the intelligibility of Quantum Mechanics -- Uncertainty, incompleteness, chance, and design -- A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe -- 2. On the origin and development of life -- A brief history of evolutionary thought -- Life's (...)
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    Realism and the history of chemistry.Manuel DeLanda - 2017 - Foundations of Chemistry 19 (1):5-15.
    This essay presents a model of a scientific field, as constituted by a domain of objective phenomena and a community of practitioners, interfaced by laboratory instrumentation and machinery. The relations between items in the domain, as well as those between the cognitive tools that shape the practices of the community are postulated to be relations of exteriority, that is, relations that do not determine the identity of what they relate. This move allows the model to avoid holism. The essay then (...)
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  29. Metaphysical realism and moral relativism: Reflections on Hilary Putnam's reason, truth and history.Gilbert Harman - 1982 - Journal of Philosophy 79 (10):568-575.
    Putnam rejects "metaphysical realism," which takes "the world" to be a single complex thing, a connected causal or explanatory order into which all facts fit. he argues that such metaphysical realism is responsible for views he finds implausible; in particular, it can lead to moral relativism when one tries to locate the place of value in the world of fact. i agree that metaphysical realism will lead a thoughtful philosopher to moral relativism, but find neither of these (...)
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  30. Reductive Realism and the Problem of Affection in Kant in An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.G. Buchdahl - 1989 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116:221-241.
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    Functional realism and history.John Burr - 1966 - World Futures 4 (3):89-91.
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    Engaging philosophically with the history of science: two challenges for scientific realism.Theodore Arabatzis - 2018 - Spontaneous Generations 9 (1):35-37.
    I raise two challenges for scientific realists. The first is a pessimistic meta-induction, but not of the more common type, which focuses on rejected theories and abandoned entities. Rather, the PMI I have in mind departs from conceptual change, which is ubiquitous in science. Scientific concepts change over time, often to a degree that is difficult to square with the stability of their referents, a sine qua non for realists. The second challenge is to make sense of successful scientific practice (...)
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    The Poverty of Anti-realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History.Tor Egil Førland & Branko Mitrović (eds.) - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Philosophy of history is currently dominated by postmodernist anti-realists who claim that historiography can never provide true accounts of the past. The Poverty of Anti-realism exposes the faulty premises and reasoning behind such assertions and shows that anti-realism has political implications unforeseen and unwanted by its adherents.
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    The Reality Effect: On Adam Timmins’ Towards a Realist Philosophy of History.Georg Gangl - 2024 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 18 (2):235-248.
    In Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, Adam Timmins sets out to develop a non-naïve form of realism that can account for the majority of the practices and products of historiography. In particular, he claims that we should be realists about facts, colligations, and narrative. While being sympathetic to some form of realism about all of these, this review essay critically discusses both Timmins’ actual arguments for historiographic realism and the approach that should be taken to (...)
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    Australian realism: the systematic philosophy of John Anderson.A. J. Baker - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book outlines the realist and pluralist philosophy of John Anderson, Australia's most original thinker. His teaching at Sydney University and his arti6es have deeply influenced Australian intellectual life. Several main themes run through his work, but Anderson never gave an overall account of his views. This is remedied here: exhibiting the range of Anderson's thought from logic, epistemology and theory of mind, to language and social theory, this volume sketches realism as a systematic philosophical position, while showing something (...)
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  36. A brief history of continental realism.Lee Braver - 2012 - Continental Philosophy Review 45 (2):261-289.
    This paper explains the nature and origin of what I am calling Transgressive Realism, a middle path between realism and anti-realism which tries to combine their strengths while avoiding their weaknesses. Kierkegaard created the position by merging Hegel’s insistence that we must have some kind of contact with anything we can call real (thus rejecting noumena), with Kant’s belief that reality fundamentally exceeds our understanding; human reason should not be the criterion of the real. The result is (...)
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  37. Realism Versus Anti-Realism: What Is the Issue? in Science in Reflection. The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Vol. 3). [REVIEW]Lj Cohen & em ZEmach - 1988 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 110:81-101.
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    Realist Literary History: Mckeon's New Origins of the NovelThe Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740. [REVIEW]William B. Warner & Michael McKeon - 1989 - Diacritics 19 (1):62.
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  39. Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth.Stathis Psillos - 1999 - New York: Routledge.
    Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it. In his book, Stathis Psillos gives us a detailed and comprehensive study which restores the intuitive plausibility of scientific realism. We see that throughout the twentieth century, scientific realism has been challenged by philosophical positions from all angles: from reductive empiricism, to instrumentalism and to modern sceptical empiricism. _Scientific Realism_ explains (...)
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    Abstract of "An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy".Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Anachronism and Idiocy: History, Realism, and the Aesthetics of Verisimilitude.Sonia Werner - 2020 - Diacritics 48 (2):36-53.
  42. History and the contemporary scientific realism debate.Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers - 2021 - In Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers, Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  43. (1 other version)Rejected posits, realism, and the history of science.Alberto Cordero - unknown
    Summary: Responding to Laudan’s skeptical reading of history an influential group of realists claim that the seriously wrong claims past successful theories licensed were not really implicated in the predictions that once singled them out as successful. For example, in the case of Fresnel’s theory of light, it is said that although he appealed to the ether he didn’t actually need to in order to derive his famous experimental predictions—in them, we are assured, the ether concept was “idle,” “inessential,” (...)
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    (1 other version)'Instrumentalism' and 'Realism' as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides.Gad Freudenthal - 2003 - Centaurus 45 (1-4):227-248.
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  45. No refuge for realism: Selective confirmation and the history of science.P. Kyle Stanford - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (5):913-925.
    Realists have responded to challenges from the historical record of successful but ultimately rejected theories with what I call the selective confirmation strategy: arguing that only idle parts of past theories have been rejected, while truly success‐generating features have been confirmed by further inquiry. I argue first, that this strategy is unconvincing without some prospectively applicable criterion of idleness for theoretical posits, and second, that existing efforts to provide one either convict all theoretical posits of idleness (Kitcher) or stand refuted (...)
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  46. Romanticism, historicism and realism: Toward a period concept for early 19th century intellectual history.Kayden V. White - 1968 - In William John Bosenbrook & Hayden V. White, The Uses of history. Detroit,: Wayne State University Press. pp. 45--58.
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  47. A realist view of logic, physics, and history.Karl Popper - 1970 - In Hermann Bondi, Wolfgang Yourgrau & Allen duPont Breck, Physics, logic, and history. New York,: Plenum Press. pp. 1--37.
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  48. Realism About the Good For Human Beings.Nandi Theunissen - 2023 - In Paul Bloomfield & David Copp, Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Against those who contend that there is a basic duality between the moral and the non-moral good, or the right and the good, I articulate a form of realism that works with a unified conception of the good in which virtue and benefit are key concepts, and in which the “moral good” is not foundationally distinctive, but explicable in terms of the good for human beings. I argue: (a) that virtuous actions are such because and insofar as they (actually (...)
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    Continental Realism and its Discontents.Marie-Eve Morin (ed.) - 2017 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    A new realist movement in continental philosophy has emerged to challenge philosophical approaches and traditions ranging from transcendental and speculative idealism to phenomenology and deconstruction for failing to do justice to the real world as it is ‘in itself’, that is, as independent of the structures of human consciousness, experience, and language. This volume presents a collection of essays that take up the challenge of realism from a variety of historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives. This volume includes essays that (...)
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  50. Science: Realism, criticism, history.James Farr - 1991 - In Terrell Carver, The Cambridge Companion to Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 106--123.
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