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Realism
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30 Aug 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between religion and the external world, and present a vision of the world as a "projection, value, projection, and realism".
Abstract: Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: RELIGION AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD 1. Projection, Religion and the External World 2. The Senses, Reason and the Imagination 3. Realism, Meaning and Justification: The External World and Religious Belief PART II: MODALITY, PROJECTION AND REALISM 4. 'Our Profound Ignorance': Causal Realism and the Failure to Detect Necessity 5. Spreading the Mind: Projection and Necessity 6. Into the Labyrinth: Persons, Modality and Hume's Undoing PART III: VALUE, PROJECTION AND REALISM 7. Gilding: Projection, Value and Secondary Qualities 8. The Gold: Good, Evil, Belief and Desire 9. The Golden: Relational Values, Realism and a Moral Sense
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01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: The paradigm of medicine Empiricism and realism, two opposing trends in medical thinking, and the ethical dimension of medical decisions.
Abstract: The paradigm of medicine Empiricism and realism: A philosophical problem Empiricism and realism: Two opposing trends in medical thinking The mechanical model Causality in medicine The disease classification: An indispensable tool Probability and belief The naturalistic approach to psychiatry Hermeneutics: The nature of man in a wider perspective Medicine and sociology Psychoanalysis: Natural science or hermeneutics? Medical ethics as a philosophical discipline The ethical dimension of medical decisions The mind and the body
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01 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss faith, belief, belief in reason and reason, and the importance of keeping quiet in the face of the world's problems and its ambiguities.
Abstract: PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: FAITH, BELIEF AND REASON 1. Clifford's Duties 2. Fiction and MythJames 4. Kinds of Animation CHAPTER 2: MAN THE MEASURE 1. Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument 2. Modern Judo 3. The Variation of Subjectives 4. The Moving Bull's-eye 5. Doing it Ourselves CHAPTER 3: ISHMAEL'S PROBLEM AND THE DELIGHTS OF KEEPING QUIET 1. Who Tell the Tale? 2. A Gestalt Switch 3. You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate 4. Moral Relativism 5. Man the Measurer 6. Summary CHAPTER 4: NIETZCHE: THE ARCH DEBUNKER 1. Facts or Interpretations? 2. Twilight of the Idols 3. Perspectivism 4. Adequate Words 5. Heraclitus and the Flux 6. The Darwinian Element CHAPTER 5: THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY 1. Getting Puzzled 2. Four Responses 3. Eliminativism 4. Realism 5. Deconstructing the Issue 6. The Constructivist Corner 7. The Example of Wittgenstein CHAPTER 6: OBSERVATION AND TRUTH: FROM LOCKE TO RORTY 1. Paradise Lost 2. First Impressions 3. Holism 4. Davidson's Mantle 5. Rorty's Talking World 6. Keeping our Feet on the Ground 7. Interlude: Law, Tennis, and the Coffee-house 8. A Political Message CHAPTER 7: REALISM AS SCIENCE REALISM ABOUT SCIENCE 1. No Miracles 2. Science Red in Tooth and Claw 3. Explaining from Within 4. Animation and Belief Again 5. Underdetermination CHAPTER 8: HISTORIANS AND OTHERS 1. Conceptual Schemes 2. Mind Reading 3. Mirroring 4. Infirmities 5. Collectives and their Histories 6. Peace Breaks Out NOTES INDEX
80 citations
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01 Nov 2017
TL;DR: The resurgence of realist political theory has been discussed in this paper, with a focus on conflict, coercion, and the circumstances of politics, and a realist challenge to liberal theory.
Abstract: Introduction: The resurgence of realist political theory 1. The liberal vision of the political: Consensus, freedom, and legitimacy 2. The realist vision of the political: Conflict, coercion, and the circumstances of politics 3. The realist challenge to liberal theory 4. Liberal alternatives: The liberalism of fear and modus vivendi 5. Bernard Williams and the structure of liberal realism 6. The partisan foundations of liberal realism 7. The moderate hegemony of liberal realism Bibliography Index
79 citations