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Realism
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31 Aug 2000
TL;DR: The Contested Nature of Educational Research as mentioned in this paper discusses the relationship between educational research and post-modernism, including race and ethnicity, and the changing knowledge of Relatively Unchanging Entities.
Abstract: 1.Introduction Part One: Theorising Educational Research 2.The Contested Nature of Educational Research 3. Educational Knowledge 4.Mathematical Modelling 5.Theory into Practice Part Two: Disciplinary Knowledge 6.School Effectiveness Research 7.Education Policy 8.Biography and Autobiography 9.Researching 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' 10.Post-modernism 11.End-piece: Changing Knowledge of Relatively Unchanging Entities
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TL;DR: The authors disentangle empiricist versions of anti-realism from constructivist versions, and, within each of these, semantic arguments from epistemological arguments, arguing that there are resources within our ordinary ways of talking about and knowing about everyday objects that enable us to extend our claims to unobservable entities.
Abstract: This essay aims to disentangle various types of anti-realism, and to disarm the considerations that are deployed to support them. I distinguish empiricist versions of anti-realism from constructivist versions, and, within each of these, semantic arguments from epistemological arguments. The centerpiece of my defense of a modest version of realism – real realism – is the thought that there are resources within our ordinary ways of talking about and knowing about everyday objects that enable us to extend our claims to unobservable entities. This strategy, the Galilean strategy, is explained using the historical example of the telescope.
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TL;DR: In the history of ideas of our century, there is a chapter that might be entitled "The Philosophical Pilgrimage of Albert Einstein" as discussed by the authors, a pilgrimage from a philosophy of science in which sensationism and empiricism were at the center, to one in which the basis was a rational realism.
Abstract: In the history of ideas of our century, there is a chapter that might be entitled ‘The Philosophical Pilgrimage of Albert Einstein’, a pilgrimage from a philosophy of science in which sensationism and empiricism were at the center, to one in which the basis was a rational realism. This essay,* a portion of a more extensive study1, is concerned with Einstein’s gradual philosophical reorientation, particularly as it has become discernible during the work on his largely unpublished scientific correspondence.2
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The Need for Theory as mentioned in this paper is a book about the need for theory in a Turbulent world with a focus on internationalism, liberalism, and post-internationalism.
Abstract: * List of Tables and Figures * Preface * The Need for Theory * The Realist Paradigm * The Liberal Paradigm * Postinternationalism in a Turbulent World * Realism, Liberalism, and Postinternationalism Compared * Interactive Crises: International, Domestic, and Individual * The United Nations * The Politics of the Antarctic * Toward Thinking Theory Thoroughly * Notes * About the Book and Authors * Subject Index * Name Index
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01 Nov 1968
TL;DR: The Dehumanization of art as mentioned in this paper is a defense of modernism, which refers to the absence of human forms in nonrepresentational art, but also to its insistent unpopularity, its indifference to the past, and its iconoclasm.
Abstract: No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled philosophically with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to a public confused by it. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting their efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century. The "dehumanization" of the title, which was meant descriptively rather than pejoratively, referred most literally to the absence of human forms in nonrepresentational art, but also to its insistent unpopularity, its indifference to the past, and its iconoclasm. Ortega championed what he saw as a new cultural politics with the goal of a total transformation of society. Ortega was an immensely gifted writer in the best belletristic tradition. His work has been compared to an iceberg because it hides the critical mass of its erudition beneath the surface, and because it is deceptive, appearing to be more spontaneous and informal than it really is. Princeton published the first English translation of the essay paired with another entitled "Notes on the Novel." Three essays were later added to make an expanded edition, published in 1968, under the title The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature .
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