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Realism
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The contextuality of evidence has been studied in the context of complementary science in a free and honest society as discussed by the authors, with a focus on evidence-in-action (or, The Contextuality of Evidence).
Abstract: Introduction.- Water and the Chemical Revolution.- Piles of Confusion: the Mixed Blessing of Electrolysis.- HO or H2O?.-Evidence in Action (or, The Contextuality of Evidence).- Pluralism in Practice.- Realism in a Free Society.- Epilogue: Complementary Science Continued.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Wood's "How Fiction Works" as mentioned in this paper is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style.
Abstract: In the tradition of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" and Milan Kundera's "The Art of the Novel", "How Fiction Works" is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint?Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carre, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.
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TL;DR: The New Legal Realism has clear jurisprudential implications, bearing as it does on competing accounts of legal reasoning, including Ronald Dworkin's suggestion that such reasoning is a search for integrity as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The last decade has witnessed the birth of the New Legal Realism - an effort to go beyond the old realism by testing competing hypotheses about the role of law and politics in judicial decisions, with reference to large sets and statistical analysis. The New Legal Realists have uncovered a Standard Model of Judicial Behavior, demonstrating significant differences between Republican appointees and Democratic appointees, and showing that such differences can be diminished or heightened by panel composition. The New Legal Realists have also started to find that race, sex, and other demographic characteristics sometimes have effects on judicial judgments. At the same time, many gaps remain. Numerous areas of law remain unstudied; certain characteristics of judges have yet to be investigated; and in some ways, the existing work is theoretically thin. The New Legal Realism has clear jurisprudential implications, bearing as it does on competing accounts of legal reasoning, including Ronald Dworkin's suggestion that such reasoning is a search for integrity. Discussion is devoted to the relationship between the New Legal Realism and some of the perennial normative questions in administrative law.
131 citations
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The ontology of Alain Badiou as discussed by the authors has been used to define a critical realist ontology for the analysis of modernity and its Promises: Habermas and Bidet.
Abstract: * Introduction * Part I: Four Kinds of Impasse *1. Modernity and its Promises: Habermas and Bidet *1.1 Between sociological suspicion and the rule of law: * Jurgen Habermas *1.2 With and against Marx and Rawls: Jacques Bidet *2. Between Relativism and Universalism: French * Critical Sociology *2.1 Capitalism and its critiques: Boltanski and Chiapello *2.2 The dialectic of universal and particular: Pierre Bourdieu *3. Touching the Void: Badiou and i ek *3.1 The exception is the norm *3.2 Miracles do happen: the ontology of Alain Badiou *3.3 Unreal: Slavoj i ek and the proletariat *4. The Generosity of Being: Antonio Negri *4.1 All is grace *4.2 Negri's Grundrisse: revolutionary subjectivity versus * Marxist 'objectivism' *4.3 The refusal of transcendence * Part II: Three Dimensions of Progress *5. A Critical Realist Ontology *5.1 The story so far *5.2 Dimensions of realism *6. Structure and Contradiction *6.1 Realism about structures *6.2 The primacy of contradiction *6.3 A dialectic of nature? *7. Justice and Universality *7.1 From fact to value *7.2 Equality and well-being *7.3 Why equality matters *8. Conclusion
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