A local processing bias in the block design task and in drawing strategy has been used to account for realistic drawing skill in individuals with autism. We investigated whether the same kind of local processing bias is seen in typically developing children with unusual skill in realistic graphic representation. Forty-three 5-11-year-olds who drew a still life completed a version of the block d...

the "dark figure" of crime—that is, about occurrences that by some criteria are called crime yet that are not registered in the statistics of whatever agency was the source of the data being used. Contending arguments arose about the dark figure between the "realists" who emphasized the virtues of completeness with which data represent the "real crime" that takes place and the "institutio...

In The empirical stance, Bas van Fraassen argues for a reconceptualization of empiricism, and a rejection of its traditional rival, speculative metaphysics, as part of a larger and provocative study in epistemology. Central to his account is the notion of voluntarism in epistemology, and a concomitant understanding of the nature of rationality. In this paper I give a critical assessment of thes...

This article focuses on emergence in social systems. The author begins by proposing a new tool to explore the mechanisms of social emergence: multi agent–based computer simulation. He then draws on philosophy of mind to develop an account of social emergence that raises potential problems for the methodological individualism of both social mechanism and of multi agent simulation. He then draws ...

The No-Miracles Argument (NMA) is often used to support scientific realism.We can formulate this argument as an inference to the best explanation (IBE), but doing so leads to the worry that it is viciously circular. Realists have responded to this accusation of circularity by appealing to reliabilism, an externalist epistemology. In this paper I argue that this retreat fails. Reliabilism suffer...

The debate on the failure of efforts to avert full-scale Russian invasion Ukraine in February 2022 is dominated by two narratives presented as mutually exclusive. On one hand, 'hawks' chastise West for failing forcefully confront adventurism earlier. other 'realists' criticise West's overreach incorporate into Western structures. Both views implicitly contend that there was only way prevent war...

The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers late 19th century, such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Rose Terry Cooke, Annie Trumbull Slosson, and Sarah Orne Jewett, known post-bellum regional realists, were actually continuing certain elements Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poetics fiction. Describing in their short stories novels England’s demographic, economic, cultural d...

This essay is a reply to the three response essays discussing our “Journalism studies for realists: Decentering journalism while keeping studies.” Recognizing value of their comments and criticisms, reiterates clarifies claims central argument decentering in studies: that metaphorical “decentering” lies broadening field’s conceptual empirical horizons; there not taking normative assumptions gra...

Abstract Nomic realists have traditionally put laws to work within a theory of natural modality, in order provide metaphysical source for causal necessitation, counterfactuals, and dispositions. However, are well-suited perform other as well. Necessitation is widespread phenomenon includes (for example) cases categorial, conceptual, grounding, mathematical normative necessitation. A permissive ...