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Moral realism (3692 bytes)
1: ...n direct opposition to [[moral relativism]]. Some moral realists include [[David Brink]], [[John McDowell...
3: ...difficulties, the most desirable defence of moral realism will survive most or all of these difficulties.
5: ...lly existing moral properties, as the majority of moral action appears to assume their existence.

New realism (1462 bytes)
8: '''New Realism''' refers to the group of artists (Y. Klein, [[Ch...

Realism (8218 bytes)
1: ...e impractical and visionary. However, the term ''realism'' is used, with varying meanings, in several of t...
3: ...n "[[accuracy|accurate]]" (or realistic) manner. Realism began as a reaction to [[romanticism]], in which...
5: ==Realism in literature==
7: Realism is associated with a rejection of fantasy, mythol...
9: ...gh degree the later realists and [[naturalist]]s. Realism was an international affair, so in France there w...

Indirect realism (772 bytes)
1: ... problems have led some philosophers to abandon [[realism]] and suggest the existence of [[dualism]] and ot...
4: * [[direct realism]]

Magic realism (3604 bytes)
1: ...rquez]], and [[Isabel Allende]]. Today, ''magical realism'' is used especially when referring to Latin Amer...
3: ...e not truly realistic. However, stories of magic realism tend to treat reality as completely fluid and hav...
5: Though magic realism has spread beyond these confines, it is worth not...
7: ...olitical system might affect our society. Magical realism, however, portrays a reality that someone believe...
21: * [[Hysterical realism]]

Socialist realism (6937 bytes)
3: ...ted to, but should not be confused with, [[social realism]].
7: ...pirit of socialism." <!--Page 148, ''On Socialist Realism" by [[Andrei Sinyavsky]] writing as Abram Tertz, ...
9: ==Socialist realism in other Communist states==
15: ==Characteristics of socialist realism==
17: ...ialist progress. The art produced under socialist realism is realistic, optimistic, and heroic.

Critical realism (1735 bytes)
1: In the [[philosophy of perception]], '''Critical realism''' is the theory that some of our [[sense-data]] ...
3: ... Thus it is natural to adopt a theory of critical realism.
5: ...the truth of [[representationalism]]. If critical realism is correct, then representationalism would have t...
9: ... other authors to form the umbrella term Critical Realism.
13: ...ealism is a name that a community of [[scientific realism|scientific realists]] apply to themselves. The c...

Philosophical realism (2389 bytes)
1: ...s diametrically opposed ones, which are termed "[[realism]]." In large measure this depends on which debate...
3: ... not name anything. This particular dispute over realism is largely moot in contemporary philosophy, and h...
5: ...ary sense ''realism'' is contrasted with ''[[anti-realism]]''.
9: ...bate in favour of simple "naturalism" or "natural realism", which is not so much a theory as the position t...
11: ... realism]], [[philosophical skepticism]], [[technorealism]]

Naïve realism (952 bytes)
1: In [[philosophy]] '''naïve realism''' is used to describe the belief that physical o...
3: ...cated version of naive realism, known as [[Direct Realism]], proposes that we perceive things directly usin...
6: ...terialism]] - [[critical realism]] - [[scientific realism]]

Representative realism (693 bytes)
1: ...ell]]. It does, unlike [[scientific realism|naïve realism]], take into account [[sense data]] (the way in w...

Epistemological realism (275 bytes)
1: '''Epistomological realism''' is a philosophical position, a subcategory of ...

Legal realism (1747 bytes)
1: ...ed the most important precursor of American legal realism. Among the important realists were Jerome Frank,...
5: ...e are many groups that claim to be heirs to legal realism, including the [[critical legal studies]] movemen...
9: ...abstract_id=339562 Brian Leiter, ''American Legal Realism'']

Social Realism (665 bytes)
1: ...ften confused with [[Socialist realism|Socialist Realism]], the official art style of the [[Soviet Union]]...

Scientific realism (4077 bytes)
3: ...n meaning. The normative commitment of scientific realism is that scientific theories aim at truth about un...
5: A further tenet of scientific realism is that scientific knowledge is progressive in na...
7: ===History of Scientific Realism===
11: ...iction (for which see Maxwell (1962)). Scientific realism is suggested, though arguably not entailed, by al...
13: ... an important anthology of articles on scientific realism.

Direct realism (9397 bytes)
1: ...ss of the external world. In contrast, [[indirect realism]] and [[representationalism]] claim that we are d...
5: ...xperience on the physical world means that direct realism is not a physical theory.
17: This view is called direct realism, which Reid championed brilliantly:
19: Direct realism is the view that the immediate (direct) objects o...
20: Do not confuse direct realism with the more naïve view discussed earlier, that ...

Hysterical realism (2347 bytes)
1: '''Hysterical realism''', also called '''recherché postmodernism''' or ...
3: ... response, [[Zadie Smith]] described ''hysterical realism'' as a "painfully accurate term for the sort of o...
11: * [[Magical Realism]]
12: * [[Realism]]
16: James Wood on hysterical realism:

Expectro-Realism (881 bytes)
1: Expectro-Realism:
2: ... in attempts to understand the "high" of Expectro-Realism. The accounts by members of this cult have all f...

Theistic realism (10383 bytes)
3: '''Theistic realism''' is the idea that true knowledge must begin wit...
5: ...tors are unnecessary and unparsimonious, theistic realism holds that natural phenomena are best understood ...
13: Johnson grounds his argument for theistic realism in several verses in the [[New Testament]] of the...
20: == Theistic realism and philosophical naturalism ==
24: ...argues that philosophical naturalism and theistic realism are diametrically opposed, because:

Poetic realism (357 bytes)

Aesthetic realism (1434 bytes)
1: ...f opposites." Four basic principles of aesthetic realism are:
8: Siegel died in 1978 but the [[Aesthetic Realism Foundation]] continues to teach the philosophy he...
10: ...ealism itself. Many former students of aesthetic realism consider the group promoting its study to be a cu...
13: *[http://aestheticrealism.org Aesthetic Realism Foundation]
14: ...//michaelbluejay.com/x/ Cult aspects of Aesthetic Realism]

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