Philosophical realism

it is only transcendental realism which can maintain the idea of a self regulating law governed world free of man. The position put forward by him perceives it to be a necessity to assume that for the intelligibility of science the order that is discovered in nature should generally exist independent of man and human…

The map of sociological approaches, based on Johnson, Dandeker and Ashworth, involves four key concepts; standard positivism, social constructionism, critical realism and post structuralism. These theories help in the comprehension of sociological perspectives. Standard positivism’s main features relate to scientific methods and empiricism. Social constructionism’s main factors are to do with social construction of reality and social action being based on subjective meaning. Post-structuralisms…

Bas van Fraassen has centered a large part of his philosophical career on studying scientific realism and describing a form of anti-realism called constructive empiricism. Van Fraassen is certainly steadfast in anti-realist belief, but doesn’t seem to have to alter too much of the realist’s perspective to form his beliefs. According to his definition of scientific realism “Science aims to give us, in its theories, a literally true story of what the world is like.”1 This is not a statement that…

Both Herman Melville along with Walt Whitman published the volumes of poetry that focus mainly on the civil war. In spite of both poetry having similarities, they have differences in philosophical as well as political approaches concerning civil war, their way of transmitting ideas along with their conception. Whitman normally experiments as well as explores the free verse whereas the Melville normally strictly builds his poetry. Their stylistic normally differ parallel and the dissimilarities…

and War (1959), Theory of International Politics (1979) and The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May be Better (1981). However, his greatest legacy to the field of International Politics was his study that facilitated the revival/resurrection of realism. Realism is the objective study of global phenomena and behavioral patterns of state and non-state actors in the international realm. It attributes raison d’état to state behavior and justifies real-time state actions by connoting self-interest…

Sartre slogan states “existence precedes essence”. This statement essentially serves as the main distinction of existentialism from other philosophical theories. The idea behind it is that humans are not fixed by what type they are: labels, roles, stereotypes or other predefined categories. The slogan rather explains that it is what humans make of themselves and who they become consciously: what their values and what the meaning of their life that are essentials to a human being (Crowell, 2017).…

examining historical developments in technology or abstract the digital in philosophical debate. A third option, as proposed by Daniel Downes in Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace, is to combine the philosophical with conceptualized social interaction. Summary: The point of Downes’ text can be understood from its title alone. In examining a large number of digital theorists, he supports his own theory of interactive realism, which suggests…

My dissertation, entitled “Comic Book Realism: Sincerity, Ethics, and the Superhero in Contemporary American Literature,” has developed out of questions I began asking at Christ College, beginning with “Word and Image,” when Professor David Morgan introduced me to the study of comics in Fall 2007. The relationship between word and image is at the heart of my dissertation, in which I examine the emerging genre of what I am calling “comic book realism,” novels which draw on, reference, and…

Richard Rorty, an American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who explored expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.” Rejecting the Platonist tradition at an starting period. Initially he was attracted to analytic philosophy. Rorty’s views were strong when he came to believe from representationalism, this tradition in its own way suffered a lot. He associated with Platonism flaw. And he…

Relating some philosophy on our chosen novel- One of the philosophy I chose to relate Romeo and Juliet with is "if love be rough with you, be rough with love." And this kind of philosophy is Realism because realism philosophy is the belief that some aspects of reality are ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, perceptions, linguistic practices, beliefs and many more. What I understand about the stated quote above is if you love someone, go after them no matter how hard it is.…