Scientific realists endeavor to secure inferences from empirical success to approximate truth by arguing that, despite the demise of empirically successful theories, the parts of those theories ...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE WITH THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (2018), pp. 450-461 (12 pages ...

I’ve been squabbling about realism lately, with myself as well as with others. I don’t mean realism in the colloquial sense, meaning hardheadedness, or political realism, which assumes we’re all ...

That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the UK’s Royal Society. Massimi’s prize ...

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"Philosophy is dead," said Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and mathematician [1]. This famous phrase caused quite a stir and much criticism because of the context in ...

PHILOSOPHERS are not being rude when they describe the approach most of us take as naive realism. After all, when they cross the street on the way to work, they tend to accept implicitly – as we all ...

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