Hoping for Metanormative Realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-019-00181-8
Abstract: Debates in metaethics about metanormative realism, quasi-realism, anti-realism, and nihilism mostly focus on epistemic reasons for beliefs about values. Very little has been said about our practical reasons for metaethical beliefs, and even less is… read more here.
Keywords: hoping metanormative; metanormative realism; practical reasons; realism ... See more keywords
Parfit’s and Scanlon’s Non-Metaphysical Moral Realism as Alethic Pluralism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-017-9801-6
Abstract: Thomas Scanlon and Derek Parfit have recently defended a meta-ethical view that is supposed to satisfy our realistic intuitions about morality, without the metaphysical implications that many find hard to accept in other realist views.… read more here.
Keywords: alethic pluralism; normative entities; scanlon; scanlon non ... See more keywords
Moral Phenomenology and the Value-Laden World
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-021-10213-4
Abstract: Do the introspectively ascertainable aspects of our moral experiences carry ontological objective purport—portraying reality as containing worldly moral properties and facts, thus supporting moral realism? Horgan and Timmons (2008, 2018) answer this question in the… read more here.
Keywords: expressivism; phenomenology; aspects moral; ontological objective ... See more keywords
Realism, Progress and the Historical Turn
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DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9481-4
Abstract: The contemporary debate between scientific realism and anti-realism is conditioned by a polarity between two opposing arguments: the realist’s success argument and the anti-realist’s pessimistic induction. This polarity has skewed the debate away from the… read more here.
Keywords: progress; science; philosophy; realist ... See more keywords
Scientific Realism Without Reality? What Happens When Metaphysics is Left Out
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DOI: 10.1007/s10699-020-09705-w
Abstract: Scientific realism is usually presented as if metaphysical realism (i.e. the thesis that there is a structured mind-independent external world) were one of its essential parts. This paper aims to examine how weak the metaphysical… read more here.
Keywords: metaphysics; without reality; scientific realism; metaphysical realism ... See more keywords
Antirealism in Sheep’s Clothing
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DOI: 10.1007/s10701-025-00881-y
Abstract: Scientific realism is the philosophical stance that science tracks truth, in particular in its depiction of the world’s ontology. Ontologically, this involves a commitment to the existence of entities posited by our best scientific theories;… read more here.
Keywords: function realism; ontology; realism; antirealism sheep ... See more keywords
Realism and Empirical Equivalence
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DOI: 10.1007/s10992-019-09526-8
Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to investigate various notions of empirical equivalence in relation to the two main arguments for realism in the philosophy of science, namely the no-miracles argument and the indispensability… read more here.
Keywords: thesis; theory; equivalence; argument ... See more keywords
Measure for Measure: Operationalising Cognitive Realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11023-024-09690-0
Abstract: This paper develops a measure of realism from within the framework of cognitive structural realism (CSR). It argues that in the context of CSR, realism can be operationalised in terms of balance between accuracy and… read more here.
Keywords: cognitive realism; operationalising cognitive; realism; measure ... See more keywords
Naïve realism and phenomenal overlap
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-016-0753-9
Abstract: Many arguments against naïve realism are arguments against its corollary: disjunctivism. But there is a simpler argument—due to Mehta (J Philos 111:311–331, 2014)—that targets naïve realism directly. In broad strokes, the argument is the following.… read more here.
Keywords: realism phenomenal; argument; phenomenally similar; mehta argument ... See more keywords
Against explanatory realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0862-0
Abstract: Explanatory realism is the position that all explanations give information about whatever metaphysically determines the explanandum. This view is popular and plays a central role in metaphysics, but in this paper I argue that explanatory… read more here.
Keywords: explanation; position; explanatory realism; metaphysics ... See more keywords
(Probably) not companions in guilt
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0959-5
Abstract: In this paper, I will attempt to develop and defend a common form of intuitive resistance to the companions in guilt argument. I will argue that (contra the companions in guilt argument) one can reasonably… read more here.
Keywords: companions guilt; probably companions; realism;