An upholder of liberal political values, Kant opposed the tradition realism on several levels, one them anthropological foundations politics. Kant’s position was moderate: like liberals, he believed in evolution freedom; conservatives, underscored difficulties confronting a person that way and dissuaded from taking hasty action. Realists deem these either insurmountable or surmountable to such ...

Both realists and instrumentalists have found it difficult to understand (much less accept) Carnap’s developed view on theoretical terms, which attempts to stake out a neutral position between realism and instrumentalism. I argue that Carnap’s mature conception of a scientific theory as the conjunction of its Ramsey sentence and Carnap sentence can indeed achieve this neutral position. To see t...

Does mathematics ever play an explanatory role in science? If so then this opens the way for scientific realists to argue for the existence of mathematical entities using inference to the best explanation. Elsewhere I have argued, using a case study involving the primenumbered life cycles of periodical cicadas, that there are examples of indispensable mathematical explanations of purely physica...

Recent research suggests that cultural groups comprise subgroups differing in the combination of their self-identifications with their heritage and host cultures and following distinct trajectories of acculturation. This study aimed at identifying such subgroups, predicting group membership by premigration factors, and testing for acculturation-related experiences with the host culture over tim...

In a series of recent papers, the prominent Austrian economist Peter Boettke has criticised orthodox economics for its lack of realism. This paper situates Boettke’s critique in the context provided by recent developments in the methodology of economics, most notably critical realism. While there is a good deal of common ground between Boettke’s approach and critical realism, the latter also he...

The article describes main milestones of the emergence and approval literary term realism. was filled with new content in French literature criticism 1840s, 1849 first appeared Russia by Pavel Annenkov. appearance contributed to transfer Russian soil entire associative halo Realistic school, as it understood France at that time. study lagging autoreflection allows one put forward thesis about a...

A NEW SOURCE OF HOPE Some might say that the title of this book has an oxymoronic quality: can a realist believe that a Utopia is achievable? By the end of the argument I remained uncertain, but there is no doubting the author’s command of his evidence or his degree of commitment to his cause. Bregman is described as ‘one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers’, and this book became a bestse...