Finally, the pictures warrant comment since an excellent book on histopathology without excellent pictures is a contradiction in terms. In an ideal world all microscopic pictures would be in color. In this world, all the pictures in this volume are black and white. However, the pictures have clearly been well selected for their quality, which is quite good, and they more than adequately complem...

Modal realists should fashion their theory by postulating and taking seriously the modal equivalent of tense, or modal tense. This will give them a uniform way to respond to five different objections, one each by Skyrms, Quine, and Peacocke, and two by van Inwagen, and suggest a non-Lewisian path to modal realism. 0. Introduction The extensive parallel between temporal logic and modal logic has...

Federal appellate judges cite cases by sister circuits. Why is that? Common wisdom holds that judges look to out-of-circuit cases for credible legal arguments -as persuasive precedent. But hard-core adherents of the attitudinal model (Segal and Spaeth 2002) – and certain cynical realists and critical legal studies scholars – might argue that judges decide in accordance with their policy or poli...

Superficially, Actor Network Theory (ANT) and critical realism (CR) are radically opposed research traditions. Written from a realist perspective, this paper asks whether there might be a basis for finding common ground between these two traditions. It looks in turn at the questions of realism, structure, and agency, analysing the differences between the two perspectives and seeking to identify...

The debate on scientific realism results from a tension between the empiricist methodology, which is defining feature of science, and claims to effect that science can unveil fundamental nature reality. What distinguishes realist anti-realist positions not necessarily former take knowledge “at face value” or side scientists in general while latter do not. Rather, realists anti-realists propose ...

The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought between Germany the United States. By Matthew Specter. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 336p. 30.00 paper. - Volume 20 Issue 4

John Hare has proposed “prescriptive realism” in an attempt to stake out a middle-ground position in the twentieth century Anglo-American debates concerning metaethics between substantive moral realists and antirealistexpressivists. The account is supposed to preserve both the normativity and objectivity of moral judgments. Hare defends a version of divine command theory. The proposal succeeds ...