In recent work, Christopher Peacocke has argued for a kind of realism (or anti-reductionism) about magnitudes such as temperature and spatial distance. Peacocke’s argument is that are an ineliminable commitment scientific everyday explanations (including high-level explanations), they the natural candidates semantic values our ordinary magnitude talk, contents mental states. I critique these ar...

This paper offers a new interpretation of Margaret Cavendish’s remarks on beauty. According to it, Cavendish takes beauty be real, response-independent quality objects. In this sense, is an aesthetic realist. broad outline, I argue, position remains constant throughout her writings. While there are passages in work that might seem count against reading—specifically, disagreement judgement, the ...

This paper argues that ontic structural realism (OSR) faces a dilemma: either it remains on the general level of realism with respect to the structure of a given theory, but then it is, like epistemic structural realism, only a partial realism; or it is a complete realism, but then it has to answer the question how the structure of a given theory is implemented, instantiated or realized and thu...

The aim of this study was to analyze scientific realism in the dichotomy between positivism and antipositivism and to position this analysis on the epistemological axis. The study also aimed to demonstrate that scientific realism provides a more comprehensive explanation regarding the legitimacy of social sciences compared with positivism and anti-positivism. The results of this study suggest t...

According to a wrong interpretation of the Bell theorem, it has been repeatedly claimed in recent times that we are forced by experiments to drop any possible form of realism in the foundations of quantum mechanics. In this paper I defend the simple thesis according to which the above claim cannot be consistently supported: the Bell theorem does not concern realism, and realism per se cannot be...

Physical realism plays an important role in the way character animations are being perceived. We present a method for evaluating the physical realism of character animations, by using musculoskeletal model simulation resulting from biomechanics research. We describe how such models can be used without the presence of external force measurements. We define two quality measures that describe prin...