How to Formulate Scientific Realism and Antirealism

How to define ‘Moral Realism’

Moral realism is the doctrine that some propositions asserting that some action is ‘morally’ good (obligatory, bad, or wrong) are true. This paper examines three different definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good (with corresponding definitions for ‘morally’ obligatory, bad, or wrong) which would make moral realism a clear and plausible view. The first defines ‘morally good ...

How to formulate image processing

This paper presents an ontology-based system for helping inexperienced users formulate image processing applications. We propose models and their formalization through ontologies that identify and organize the necessary and sufficient information to design such applications. We also explain the interaction means that lead the user to give a good formulation of his/her application.

How to formulate research recommendations.

How to formulate a research question.

This issue of Research Bites looks at some important considerations in formulating a research question for quantitative research. Research originates with an idea about some general problem or question. This problem or question is narrowed down to a more specific research question, which then represents the central issue being addressed. First, it is important to distinguish between descriptive...

Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism. Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture, Delivered in Oxford on June 2, 1987

It is, as is familiar, difficult to be precise about what is involved in realism. The realist in us wants to hold to a certain sort of very general view about our place in the world, a view that, as I have put it elsewhere, mixes modesty with presumption.' On the one hand, it is supposed, modestly, that how matters stand in the world, what opinions about it are true, is settled independently of...