Naïve realism is the commonsense view that the world we encounter in everyday life is one and the same as the physical world. An opposing view is provided by the philosophy of mind and the scientific study of percep-tion—contact with the physical world is mediate, and what we experience in everyday life is a representation created by our senses and central nervous system (1-3). Indeed, this rep...

String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differences that set string theory apart from other physical theories have important philosophical consequences. Focussing on implications for the realism debate in philosophy of science, it is argued tha...

After decades of neglect philosophers of physics have discovered gauge theories—arguably the paradigm of modern field physics—as a genuine topic for foundational and philosophical research. Incidentally, in the last couple of years interest from the philosophy of physics in structural realism—in the eyes of its proponents the best suited realist position towards modern physics—has also raised. ...

Abstract: Socialist literature and art are constructed on the basis of Marxist philosophy. The “people character” socialist is based fact that philosophy abandons individualism focuses a wider population’s freedom happiness. Therefore, take people rather than individuals as subject expression. Realism, basic principle literary artistic creation, materialism “typical environment typical characte...

Abstract In this article, I argue against a widespread misconception concerning the nature of things in Sartre’s philosophy. conception concerns idea that outside consciousness single undifferentiated mass brute being exists which is divided into definitive by consciousness. propose different reading realism. Such based primarily on Nausea, Being and Nothingness Consciousness Self Knowledge sta...

The target of this paper is twofold. The first part develops firstly a very general and abstract topic, by describing what philosophy of logic is, when it is embedded in a genuine philosophical system, and it secondly provides an explanation of the reason why intuitionism, assumed as genuine philosophical system, is in total harmony with the contemporary intuitionistic formal logic. This part e...

Grounded theory has been evolving methodologically since Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss first described it in the late 1960s. Initially underpinned by modernist philosophy, grounded theory has had recent turns including the adoption of both constructivism and postmodernism. This article explores ontological offerings of critical realism as a basis for transformational grounded theory informed...

What is an adequate philosophy for knowledge management for an ontologist working in information science? I will contend that the relevant part of knowledge management, namely the theory of knowledge representation, lacks proper foundations. In particular, I will criticize the traditional philosophical approach to knowledge representation, which I call pragmatist conceptualism. I argue on the o...

Suppose that one is at least a minimal realist about a given domain, in that one thinks that that domain contains truths that are not in any interesting sense of our own making. Given such an understanding, what can be said for and against the method of reflective equilibrium as a procedure for investigating the domain? One fact that lends this question some interest is that many philosophers d...

In this paper, I attempt to demonstrate the structure of Sellars’ critical direct realism in the philosophy of perception. This position is original because it attempts to balance two claims that many have thought to be incompatible: (1) that perceptual knowledge is direct, i.e., not inferential, and (2) that perceptual knowledge is irreducibly conceptual. Even though perceptual episodes are no...