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Summary "Realism" comes in many philosophical guises. One sort of realism concerns whether certain entities exist, or whether they exist independent of our minds. Realism in this metaphysical sense arises for numerous subject matters: everyday material objects, concepts, universals, mathematical objects, moral values, unobservable theoretical entities, and so on. Michael Dummett characterizes realism and anti-realism in semantic terms, suggesting that the fundamental issue is not about the existence of entities, but rather about whether statements of some specified class (such as mathematics or ethics) can have an objective truth value, independently of our means of knowing it.
Key works The diversity of realisms is discussed e.g. in Devitt 1991, Miller 2008, and Raatikainen 2014. A good systematic discussion of  realism about the external world as opposed to phenomenalism and idealism can be found in Locke 1967; see also Armstrong 1961. An already classic collection of articles for and against realism about unobservable theoretical entities, i.e. "scientific realism", is Leplin 1984. An influential recent defense is Psillos 1999; see also Devitt 1991. The realism/antirealism issue was recasted in semantic terms in Dummett 1978, 1993; see also Wright 1986Miller 2006 and Shieh 1998 are useful discussions. Devitt 1983 is a well-known critique of the Dummettian anti-realism.  
Introductions On the variety of realisms: Miller 2008; on scientific realism: Chakravartty 2013, Devitt 2005; on semantic realism and anti-realism: Miller 2006.
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  2. Making New Tools From the Toolbox of Metaphysics. [REVIEW]Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo - 2023 - Erkenntnis (5):2251-2257.
    In this review, I specify the metametaphysical background against which Alastair Wilson’s “The Nature of Contingency” (Oxford University Press, 2020) should be properly understood. Metaphysics, as a philosophical discipline, is standing on thin ice. The caricature of the situation is polarized, and is often presented as follows: metaphysics is either entirely extracted from science or it is entirely independent of science. There is a recent trend that focuses on the middle ground between these extremes, searching the philosophical literature for metaphysical (...)
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  3. Xian shi zhu yi di mei xue si kao.Xiangfeng Wang - 1988 - Beijing: Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing.
    本书是崭新的角度对现实主义进行了系统而深刻的美学探讨。全书共5编18章,分别论述了现实主义的原则、特点、现实主义的真实性、现实主义的典型创造等问题。.
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  4. Gengo kagaku ningen: jitsuzairon o megutte.Shingo Fujita & Nobuharu Tanji (eds.) - 1990 - Tōkyō: Asakura Shoten.
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  5. Xian shi zhu yi fan si yu tan suo.Qihua Peng - 1992 - Wuchang: Wuhan da xue chu ban she.
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  6. Realizm mirovozzrenii︠a︡ i mirovozzrenie realizma.Vitaliĭ Heorhiĭovych Tabachkovskiĭ (ed.) - 1992 - Kiev: Nauk. dumka.
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  7. Filosofskiĭ realizm.V. S. Egorov - 1994 - Moskva: "Progress".
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  8. A filozófiai realizmus védhetősége: tudományfilozófiai konferencia, Budapest, 1992. június 26-27.György Bence, Ferenc Altrichter & Tibor Szécsényi (eds.) - 1994 - Budapest: ELTE BTK Filozófiai Tanszékcsoport, Tudományfilozófiai Munkabizottsága.
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  9. Pluralismo Ontológico.Axel Arturo Barcelo Aspeitia - 2023 - Enciclopedia de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica.
    a cuestión de si la realidad es homogénea o heterogénea es uno de los debates más antiguos de la filosofía occidental y se repite en prácticamente todas las tradiciones filosóficas del mundo. Hay tres motivaciones principales para adoptar una visión heterogénea de la realidad: para dar cuenta de errores categoriales, para resolver paradojas, y para respetar la aparente heterogeneidad de nuestra experiencia, pensamiento y lenguaje. A continuación, revisaremos cada una de ellas, para después ver los principales retos que enfrenta quién (...)
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  10. Il realismo scientifico e l'etere luminifero.John Worrall - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  11. Il realismo scientifico e gli asserti osservativi.Crispin Wright - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  12. Einstein fu davvero un realista?Don Howard - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  13. Il principio di indeterminazione e il progresso scientifico.Hilary Putnam - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  14. Il relativismo ontologico.Paul K. Feyerabend - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  15. Immagini radicalmente construzionaliste del progresso matematico.Ian Hacking - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  16. Epistemologia e verità.Donald Davidson - 1995 - In Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  17. Realismi, antirealismi e oltre.Alessandro Pagnini - 1995 - In Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo. La nuova Italia.
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  18. Constructivismo y realismo.Mario H. Otero & Alción Cheroni (eds.) - 2000 - Montevideo, Uruguay: Fundación de Cultura Universitaria.
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  19. Relativity in a Fundamentally Absolute World.Jack Spencer - 2022 - Philosophical Perspectives 36 (1):305-328.
    This paper develops a view on which: (a) all fundamental facts are absolute, (b) some facts do not supervene on the fundamental facts, and (c) only relative facts fail to supervene on the fundamental facts.
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  20. Dang dai shi zai lun yu fan shi zai lun zhi zheng =.Zhicang Zhang - 2001 - Nanjing Shi: Nanjing shi fan da xue chu ban she.
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  21. Tafsīrī bar Uṣūl-i falsafah va ravish-i riʼālīsm-i ʻAllāmah Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʼī bā pāvaraqī-i Shahīd Muṭahharī.Muḥammad Bāqir Sharīʻatī - 2002 - Qum: Būstān-i Kitāb-i Qum.
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  22. Mountains and Their Boundaries.Daniel Z. Korman - forthcoming - In Miguel Garcia-Godinez (ed.), Thomasson on Ontology. Springer.
    I examine Amie Thomasson’s account of the metaphysics of mountains and their boundaries, from her “Geographic Objects and the Science of Geography.” I begin by laying out a puzzle about mountains that generates some pressure towards accepting that we are somehow responsible for their having the boundaries that they do. As a foil for Thomasson’s own account, I present two competing theories of geographic objects—one on which they are thoroughly mind- dependent, and one on which they are thoroughly mind-independent—neither of (...)
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  23. The Self The Soul and The World: Affect Reason and Complexity.Avijit Lahiri - manuscript
    This book looks at the affective-cognitive roots of how the human mind inquires into the workings of nature and, more generally, how the mind confronts reality. Reality is an infinitely complex system, in virtue of which the mind can comprehend it only in bits and pieces, by making up interpretations of the myriads of signals received from the world by way of integrating those with information stored from the past. This constitutes a piecemeal interpretation by which we assemble our phenomenal (...)
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  24. Edenic Idealism.Robert Smithson - 2023 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 101 (1):16-33.
    ABSTRACT According to edenic idealism, our ordinary object terms refer to items in the manifest world—the world of primitive objects and properties presented in experience. I motivate edenic idealism as a response to scenarios where it is difficult to match the objects in experience with corresponding items in the external world. I argue that edenic idealism has important semantic advantages over realism: it is the most intuitive view of what we are actually talking about when we use terms for objects.
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  25. Concepciones de lo real: realismo y antirrealismo en semántica y metafísica.José L. Zalabardo - 2011 - Oviedo: KRK Ediciones.
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  26. Realismo e antirealismo.Mariano Bianca & Paolo Piccari (eds.) - 2011 - Roma: Aracne editrice S.r.l..
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  27. Cong wu zhi shi ti dao guan xi shi zai.Jiachang Luo - 2012 - Beijing: Zhongguo ren min da xue chu ban she.
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  28. Realizm i sceptycyzm: studia analityczne.Damian Leszczyński - 2012 - Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.
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  29. Reduktionismen - und Antworten der Philosophie.Wilfried Griesser (ed.) - 2012 - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
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  30. Spinoza and the Puzzle of Attributes: An Essentialist Approach.Ataollah Hashemi - manuscript
    In Spinoza’s ontology, there are only two categories of existing items: an independent entity that is one substance, and dependent entities that are infinite modes; “nothing exists external to the intellect except substances and their affections”(Proof of 1.P.4). Nevertheless, Spinoza introduces a third notion, ‘attribute’, that is defined as “what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence” (1.d.4). Spinoza’s metaphysics is known for the doctrine of substance monism that indicates that only one substance exists. Spinoza, however, explicitly states (...)
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  31. How to be an antirealist about metaphysical explanation.Naomi Thompson - forthcoming - Ratio.
    Antirealism about metaphysical explanation is relatively underexplored. This paper maps out the territory for the antirealist, explaining what it would take to be an antirealist given various different conceptions of metaphysical explanation, and of the relationship between metaphysical explanation and grounding.
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  32. An Assessment of Idealism In light of Indian Philosophy (भारतीय दर्शन में प्रत्ययवाद की गत्यात्मक दृष्टि).Shruti Sharma - 2021 - Insight - an International Multilingual Journal for Arts and Humanities 1 (5 july 2021):135-143.
    The viewpoint of the Indian way of thinking is a greater amount of inborn as opposed to outward. Which gives more worth to current realities. In any event, to know the idea of fundamental reality, human insight first needs to know the idea of the outside world. It specifies are additionally predominant in Upanishads, where it has been expressed that faculties are more extraneous while knowing the external world. This research paper particularly centers around the idealist viewpoint with uncommon reference (...)
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  33. Do We Perceive Reality?John Klasios - 2022 - arXiv.
    The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that we don't perceive reality: spacetime, objects, colors, sounds, tastes, and so forth, are all merely an interface that we evolved to track evolutionary fitness rather than to perceive truths about external reality. In this paper, I expound on his argument, then I extend it, primarily, by looking at key ideas in physics that are quite germane to it. Among the topics in physics that I discuss are black holes, the holographic principle, string theory, (...)
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  34. Resisting Phenomenalism, From Bodily Experience to Mind-Independence.Massin Olivier - 2022 - In Alsmith Adrian & Serino Andrea (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness. London: Routledge.
    Can one refute Berkeleyan phenomenalism by arguing that sensory objects seem mind-independent, and that, according to Berkeley, experience is to be taken at face value? Relying on Mackie’s recent discussion of the issue, I argue, first, that phenomenalism cannot be straightforwardly refuted by relying on perceptual or bodily experience of mind-independence together with the truthfulness of experience. However, I maintain, second that phenomenalism can be indirectly refuted by appealing to the bodily experience of resistance. Such experience presents us with the (...)
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  35. No Limit: On What Thought Can Actually Do.Jocelyn Benoist - 2023 - In Jens Pier (ed.), Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein. Routledge.
    This paper critically examines the notion of a limit. It questions whether a putative opposition of philosophical “camps” emphasized in recent years is actually tenable. This opposition is taken to hold between classical approaches in a Kantian spirit, operating with the notion of necessary limits to human cognition and sense-making, and a recent “speculative” turn in philosophy championed by Quentin Meillassoux, looking to overcome such limits. The paper’s contention against this dichotomy is that the rhetoric of unlimitedness depends on ideas (...)
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  36. The Quantum Wave Function Isn't Real.Eddy Keming Chen - 2022 - The Institute of Art and Ideas.
    In this popular article, I suggest that the task of interpreting quantum mechanics becomes easier if we reject the view that the quantum universe must be described by a wave function. We should zoom out from the wave function and represent the universe with something more coarse-grained, one that naturally arises from considerations about the Past Hypothesis. The new proposal is called the Wentaculus.
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  37. Nonsense: A Riddle Without Solution.Gilad Nir - forthcoming - In James Conant & Gilad Nir (eds.), Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations.
    This paper concerns Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophical and mathematical problems. Both in his earlier and in his later writings Wittgenstein grapples with the tendency of philosophers to misconstrue the nature of the difficulties that they are facing. Whereas philosophers tend to assume that their problems are comparable to those that come up in the sciences, and take these problems to consist in questions the answers to which will provide them with substantive knowledge, Wittgenstein compares philosophical problems with riddles. What is (...)
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  38. Phenomenology, anti‐realism, and the knowability paradox.James Kinkaid - 2022 - European Journal of Philosophy 30 (3):1010-1027.
    Husserl endorses ideal verificationism, the claim that there is a necessary correlation between truth and the ideal possibility of experience. This puts him in the company of semantic anti-realists like Dummett, Tennant, and Wright who endorse the knowability thesis that all truths are knowable. Unfortunately, there is a simple, seductive, and troubling argument due to Alonzo Church and Frederic Fitch that the knowability thesis collapses into the omniscience thesis that all truths are known. Phenomenologists should be worried. I assess the (...)
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  39. Social Ontologies of Race and their Development.David Miguel Gray - 2022 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (S1):4-20.
    The theme of this year’s Spindel Conference was Social Ontologies of Race. This editorial introduction serves as both a general introduction to the topic of racial ontology and an introduction to this volume’s contributions. I will first explain some central ideas for discussions of ontology in general. I will then make some basic taxonomic distinctions common to discussions of racial ontology and suggest some clarifications. I will then go on to discuss the five contributions to this volume.
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  40. Verso un nuovo realismo: osservazioni sulla stabilità tra estetica e metafisica.Luca Taddio - 2013 - Milano: Jouvence.
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  41. Il caso nuovo realismo: la lingua del dibattito filosofico contemporaneo.Raffaella Scarpa - 2013 - Milano: Mimesis.
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  42. Shi zai lun yu zhen li =.Michael Devitt - 2013 - Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she. Edited by Yuan Hao.
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  43. Realismo?: una questione non controversa.Franca D'Agostini - 2013 - Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
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  44. Speculations IV: speculative realism.Michael Austin, Paul Ennis, Fabio Gironi, Thomas Gokey & Robert Jackson (eds.) - 2013 - Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books.
    With this special volume of Speculations, the editors wanted to challenge the contested term "speculative realism," offering scholars who have some involvement with it a space to voice their opinions of the network of ideas commonly associated with the name.
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  45. What's critical about critical realism?: essays in reconstructive social theory.Frédéric Vandenberghe - 2014 - New York: Routledge.
    What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection of philosophy and sociology. Preceded by a general presentation of Bhaskar ́s work, critical realism is used to reconstruct the generative structuralism of Pierre Bourdieu, warn about the dangers of biocapitalism, theorize about social movements and explore the hermeneutics of internal conversations. Together, the essays form a logical sequence that starts with a search for a solid conception of social (...)
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  46. Concerto pour être et univers.François Tard - 2014 - Saint Chéron: Éditions Unicité.
    Albert Camus déplorait une coupure irrémédiable entre l'esprit de l'homme et un univers n'apportant aucune réponse à sa quête de sens, d'où sa révolte contre l'absurde. Cette attitude est contredite par les sagesses orientales ou ésotériques qui, depuis l'aube des temps, mènent à l'harmonie entre l'être et l'univers. L'histoire humaine comporte une extrême diversité de modes de vision de l'existence, les uns séparateurs, les autres monistes. Dans l'approche du réel, conciliant les voies rationalistes - science, philosophie, etc. - et les (...)
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  47. Kritischer Wissenschaftsrealismus: Grundlegung und Anwendung.Gabriele Neuhäuser - 2013 - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
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  48. Zur heuristischen Qualität des Reduktionismus.Fabian Lausen - 2014 - Münster: Mentis.
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  49. Manifesto of new realism.Maurizio Ferraris - 2014 - Albany: SUNY Press, State University of New York Press. Edited by Sarah De Sanctis & Graham Harman.
    Realitism: the postmodern attack on reality -- Realism: things that have existed since the beginning of the world -- Reconstruction: why criticism starts from reality -- Emancipation: unexamined life has no value.
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  50. The good news about marriage: debunking discouraging myths about marriage and divorce.Shaunti Feldhahn - 2014 - Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah Books.
    Divorce is not the biggest threat to marriage. Discouragement is. You’ve probably heard the grim facts: Half of all marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate inside the church is the same as outside. Most marriages are just holding on. But what if these “facts” are actually myths? In The Good News About Marriage, best-selling author Shaunti Feldhahn presents groundbreaking research that reveals the shocking, incredibly inspiring truth: · The actual divorce rate has never gotten close to 50 percent. · (...)
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