The occasion for this paper was an invitation from organizers of the Society for Classical Realism to participate in a special session, at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference, of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals. Implicit in this invitation was the idea that those interested in classical realism, ofwhich I am one, might make some contribution to the...

This response outlines points of agreement and disagreement with the argument put forward by Carlson Peters. I argue that their provocation is largely correct in identifying Journalism Studies’ disciplinary blinders. However, see these blinders less rooted industry assumptions, as they contend, than a larger array assumptions which we do well to reflect on. conclude solution one decentering jou...

The article describes main milestones of the emergence and approval literary term realism. was filled with new content in French literature criticism 1840s, 1849 first appeared Russia by Pavel Annenkov. appearance contributed to transfer Russian soil entire associative halo Realistic school, as it understood France at that time. study lagging autoreflection allows one put forward thesis about a...

According to the argument from underconsideration, since theory evaluation is comparative, and since scientists do not have good reasons to believe that they are epistemically privileged, it is unlikely that our best theories are true. In this paper, I examine two formulations of this argument, one based on van Fraassen’s “bad lot” premise and another based on what Lipton called the “no-privile...

Two successes of old quantum theory are particularly notable: Bohr’s prediction of the spectral lines of ionised helium, and Sommerfeld’s prediction of the fine-structure of the hydrogen spectral lines. Many scientific realists would like to be able to explain these successes in terms of the truth or approximate truth of the assumptions which fuelled the relevant derivations. In this paper I ar...

It is sometimes claimed that if moral realism is true, then rational and informed individuals would not disagree about morality. According to this line of thought, the moral realist is committed to an extremely substantive convergence thesis, one that might very well turn out to be false. Although this idea has been accepted by prominent moral realists as well as by antirealists, I argue that w...

We examine the pros and cons of color realism, exposing some desiderata on a theory of color: the theory should render colors as scientifically legitimate and correctly individuated, and it should explain how we have veridical color experiences. We then show that these desiderata can by met by treating colors as properties of the special sciences. According to our view, some of the major disput...

Recent research suggests that cultural groups comprise subgroups differing in the combination of their self-identifications with their heritage and host cultures and following distinct trajectories of acculturation. This study aimed at identifying such subgroups, predicting group membership by premigration factors, and testing for acculturation-related experiences with the host culture over tim...