Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted. A believer of scientific realism...

analytic philosophy, anti-realism is a position which encompasses many varieties such as metaphysical, mathematical, semantic, scientific, moral and epistemic...

rationalism (Katz) Referential realism Romantic realism Scientific realism Musgrave's scientific realism Scotistic realism Semantic realism (epistemology) (a position...

scientific realism, in the sense of regarding the scientific method as a reliable guide to the nature of reality. The main alternative to scientific realism...

philosophy of perception and epistemology, naïve realism (also known as direct realism or perceptual realism) is the idea that the senses provide us with...

models, is referred to as racialism, race realism, or race science by those who support these ideas. Modern scientific consensus rejects this view as being...

realism (also selective realism), sometimes equated with referential realism, is a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism....

Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among...

Magic realism or magical realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements...

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements...

categorized as an antirealism, although its mere lack of commitment to scientific theory's realism can be termed nonrealism. Instrumentalism merely bypasses debate...

ISBN 978-0-226-30062-7. Godfrey-Smith, Peter (2003o). "Empiricism, naturalism, and scientific realism?". Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science...

Model-dependent realism is a view of scientific inquiry that focuses on the role of scientific models of phenomena. It claims reality should be interpreted...

universals to build a naturalistic and scientifically realist ontology. In both Universals and Scientific Realism (1978) and Universals: An Opinionated...

he evades many classical objections to realism. Traditional scientific realism is the view that: If a scientific theory 'X' generates correct novel predictions...

used and studied scientific theories today state more or less the truth. Realism in the sense used by physicists does not equate to realism in metaphysics...

for the study of society to be scientific. Roy Bhaskar is certainly the most prominent advocate for "critical realism," but he did not initiate either...

Agazzi, Evandro (December 2016). "Scientific realism within perspectivism and perspectivism within scientific realism". Axiomathes. 26 (4): 349–365. doi:10...

Moderate realism (also called immanent realism) is a position in the debate on the metaphysics of universals associated with the hylomorphic substance...

Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction...

namely between externalism/internalism, which relate respectively to color realism, the view that colors are physical properties that objects possess, and...

French, and Michael Redhead. The term "structural realism" for the variation of scientific realism motivated by structuralist arguments, was coined by...

). Scientific Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 124–1139. ISBN 978-0-520-05155-3. Boyd, Richard (2002). "Scientific Realism". Stanford...

Janaway 1999, pp. 248–249 Hancock 2006, p. 194 Misak 2008, Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism Hamlyn 2005, p. 592 Hart 1998, Lead Section...

throughout his career Putnam remained committed to scientific realism, roughly the view that mature scientific theories are approximately true descriptions...

College London with a thesis titled Science and Realism: A Naturalistic Investigation into Scientific Enquiry. The examiners were John Worrall and William...

best known for his arguments in favor of scientific realism and moral realism. In the case of scientific realism, Boyd was a defender of what is called...

broke new cinematic ground and are now considered landmarks. The scientific realism and innovative special effects in his science fiction epic 2001: A...

his nuanced stance on realism. While he supports scientific realism, advocating that entities and phenomena posited by scientific theories exist independently...

the thought experiment of Laplace's demon. Although sometimes called scientific determinism, the term is a misnomer for nomological determinism. Necessitarianism...