Abstract American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from epistemology defended a direct theory of perception, critical promoted representationalist account perception thus argued for an epistemological dualism. Bertrand Russell’s early writings figured prominently both these realist camps. However, ...

Abstract Does the ‘Zeitenwende’ herald beginning of a new and as yet undefined open society realism? The present essay argues this question requires critical discussion nature value realist political theory, particularly at time where international is accelerating to somewhere which itself unclear. Adding revisionist research on realism in International Relations (IR) theory I sketch how vision...

BACKGROUND Some realists have criticised randomised controlled trials for their inability to explain the causal relations that they identify; to take into account the influence of the social context of the interventions they evaluate; and to account for individual difference. However, among realists, there is controversy over whether it is possible to improve trials by making them realist, or w...

This paper examined six philosophical paradigms, namely positivism, interpretivism, post-positivism, pragmatism, post modernism and critical realism. The paradigms serve as the bases for knowledge management research practice. Basing on a review of literature drawing from tacit insights, reveals that positivist managers researchers tend to focus explicit while paying little attention knowledge....

This article explains for a general philosophical audience the central issues and strategies in the contemporary moral realism debate. It critically surveys the contribution of some recent scholarship, representing expressivist and pragmatist nondescriptivism (Mark Timmons, Hilary Putnam), subjectivist and nonsubjectivist naturalism (Michael Smith, Paul Bloomfield, Philippa Foot), nonnaturalism...

This year’s MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation BioMAN Summit will focus on Real Time Release, and posters on topics related to the general theme are welcome for consideration. Read full details, including information regarding student poster prizes, here. While this call for posters focuses on the applications of Real Time Release (RTR) to biopharmaceutical manufacturing, it will consider res...