George Eliot, well-known as one of greatest realists in the 19th century, weaves multiple narratives her representative work Middlemarch, presenting vividly realistic picture society between 1829 and 1832. The narrative clue love affair Dorothea, Casaubon Will Ladislaw permeates whole story, which attracts attention numerous scholars with fruitful, inspirational studies. However, few numbers de...

In response to historical challenges, advocates of a sophisticated variant of scientific realism emphasize that theoretical systems can be divided into numerous constituents. Setting aside any epistemic commitment to the systems themselves, they maintain that we can justifiably believe those specific constituents that are deployed in key successful predictions. Stathis Psillos articulates an ex...

This article aims at discussing an interesting variant of scientific realism recently proposed and defended by Sandra Mitchell (forthcoming), namely affordances-based pragmatist realism. We firstly place Mitchell’s proposal in the context current state debate over Secondly, we summarize salient features proposal. Thirdly, point out some aspects that might require further refinement clarificatio...

Abstract This paper examines the dispute between Burge and McDowell over methodology in philosophy of perception. (2005, 2011) has argued that disjunctivism posited by naive perceptual realists is incompatible with results current science, while (2010, 2013) defends his claiming an autonomous field enquiry for epistemology, one does not employ classificatory schemes science. Here it crucial poi...

Abstract This review essay conducts and works to contribute an assessment of recent realist critiques liberal hegemony. It finds that realists identify important problems with hegemony, but also under scrutiny the alternative foreign policies critics offer suffer from their own serious limitations. makes case proposals “restraint” “offshore balancing” avoid associate interventionism, would be g...

It seems that a fixed bias toward simplicity should help one find the truth, since scientific theorizing is guided by such a bias. But it also seems that a fixed bias toward simplicity cannot indicate or point at the truth, since an indicator has to be sensitive to what it indicates. I argue that both views are correct. It is demonstrated, for a broad range of cases, that the Ockham strategy of...