A comparative sociologist who has spent her international career in academia—Marion Fourcade—and a practically minded academic economist with an extended stint in the Swiss government—Aymo Brunetti—offer their views on the role of economists in politics and society. Although Fourcade and Brunetti differ a lot in terms of experience and interest, their insightful and nuanced assessments of econo...

A local processing bias in the block design task and in drawing strategy has been used to account for realistic drawing skill in individuals with autism. We investigated whether the same kind of local processing bias is seen in typically developing children with unusual skill in realistic graphic representation. Forty-three 5-11-year-olds who drew a still life completed a version of the block d...

the "dark figure" of crime—that is, about occurrences that by some criteria are called crime yet that are not registered in the statistics of whatever agency was the source of the data being used. Contending arguments arose about the dark figure between the "realists" who emphasized the virtues of completeness with which data represent the "real crime" that takes place and the "institutio...

Abstract Naïve realists hold that the phenomenology of veridical perceptual experience is in part constituted by environmental objects subject perceiving. Although naïve realism well-motivated considering cognitive and epistemic roles experience, it considered difficult to explain hallucinatory imaginative experiences. This paper provides three arguments address these explanatory problems syste...

Abstract Realist political theory is often confronted with the objection that it biased towards status quo. Although this criticism overlooks fact realist theories contain various resources for critique, a approach strong in quo critique and contributes, constructively, to theorising of alternatives desideratum. The article argues contextual realism, which sources its normativity from particula...

Realists and supporters of ‘democratic underlabouring’ have recently challenged the traditional separation between political theory practice. Although both attack Jürgen Habermas for being an idealist whose philosophy is too removed from politics, I argue that this interpretation inaccurate. While Habermas’s social indeed oriented to truth understanding, he has sought realize his communicative ...

The debate on the failure of efforts to avert full-scale Russian invasion Ukraine in February 2022 is dominated by two narratives presented as mutually exclusive. On one hand, 'hawks' chastise West for failing forcefully confront adventurism earlier. other 'realists' criticise West's overreach incorporate into Western structures. Both views implicitly contend that there was only way prevent war...

I assess various proposals for the source of intuition that there is something problematic about contextuality, ultimately concluding contextuality best thought in terms fine-tuning. then argue as with other fine-tuning problems quantum mechanics, this behaviour can be understood a manifestation teleological features physics. Finally discuss several formal mathematical frameworks have been used...

The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers late 19th century, such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Rose Terry Cooke, Annie Trumbull Slosson, and Sarah Orne Jewett, known post-bellum regional realists, were actually continuing certain elements Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poetics fiction. Describing in their short stories novels England’s demographic, economic, cultural d...