Dewey on Naturalism, Realism and Science

Top-Level Ontology: The Problem with Naturalism

Much work in ontology has been based on ideas derived explicitly from philosophy. In particular there are two philosophy-based high-level ontologies which have been used to analyse tools and techniques for designing information systems, both deriving from the tradition of realism – one from naturalism (Bunge), the other from Aristotelian common-sense realism (Chisholm). Does it matter which und...

The Reach of the Aesthetic and Religious Naturalism: Peircean and Polanyian Reflections

Rescuing Religious Non-realism from Cupitt

Don Cupitt’s version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years. I argue that there is another strand in Cupitt’s thinking, his biological naturalism, that supports a different version of religious non-realism and that he failed t...

Beyond Structural Realism: pluralist criteria for theory evaluation

In this paper I argue that singularist approaches to solving the Pessimistic Induction, such as Structural Realism, are unacceptable, but that when a pluralist account of methodological principles is adopted this anti-realist argument can be dissolved. The proposed view is a contextual methodological pluralism in the tradition of Normative Naturalism, and is justified by appeal to meta-methodol...

Kitchen Sink Drama and Naturalism: Trends of Post-War English Theatre

The present paper studies Kitchen Sink Drama and Naturalism to investigate how a cultural movement through which artists like Arnold Wesker, John Osborne, and Shelagh Delaney express their disillusionment during the post-war period representing the reality of their lives via theatre. The period of 1956–1965 can be considered as a period of time identifying post-war British theatre which is rela...