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Topic: Metaphysical realism

	metaphysical values
		Metaphysics is just a source of case studies, in the first instance.
		Mind bending stuff: there really is so much going on in the literature, and people are working with very different conceptions of the thing.
		The view of metaphysical indeterminacy most opposed to this is one that would identify it strongly with vagueness de re, paradigmatically there being some object and some property such that it is indeterminate whether the former instantiates the latter (this is how Williamson seems to conceive of matters in a 2003 article).
	metaphysicalvalues.blogspot.com (4595 words)

	Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?
		He describes his view as "internal realism," where the term "internal" is intended to indicate his rejection of the view he calls "metaphysical realism." Putnam combines internal realism and metaphysical anti-realism in something like the way Kant combined empirical realism and transcendental idealism.
		On the one hand there is "Aristotelean realism," which holds that the universe divides itself up into a single set of kinds, and that the proper role of language is to copy the world's own single set of divisions, to classify the world in its own way.
		Modest realism shares with Putnam's and Kolakowski's views an emphasis on the importance of human activity in determining what sorts of things we will be most concerned with, but, if accepted, makes unnecessary the idealistic view that in dividing up the world we are somehow populating our world with objects that were not there before.
	www.trinity.edu /cbrown/papers/internalrealism.html (4619 words)

	A Pragmatic Realist Philosophy of Religion
		Second, in contrast to the notion of realism in the pragmatic tradition he sketches the presuppositions of what is labelled religious or theological realism in present analytic philosophy of religion.
		Common to metaphysical realists is that they maintain the objectivity of truth by defining truth in terms of correspondence with a reality that is independent of human consciousness.
		Putnam does not deny realism but develops a form of internal realism: the question as to which objects the world consists of, can only be answered when we have elaborated a kind of conceptual net which enables us to describe the world.
	www.arsdisputandi.org /publish/articles/000092/article.htm (5271 words)

	Realism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Platonic realism is committed to the existence of acausal objects and to the claim that these objects, and facts about them, are independent of anyone's beliefs, linguistic practices, conceptual schemes, and so on (in short to the claim that these objects, and facts about them, are language- and mind-independent).
		This section contains a brief explanation of semantic realism, as characterised by Dummett, Dummett's views on the relationship between semantic realism and realism construed as a metaphysical thesis, and an outline of some of the arguments in the philosophy of language that Dummett has suggested might be wielded against semantic realism.
		The dispute [between realism and its opponents] concerns the notion of truth appropriate for statements of the disputed class; and this means that it is a dispute concerning the kind of meaning which these statements have (1978: 146).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/realism (11753 words)

	Vika Bregeda\| What is Metarealism?
		Metaphysical Painting - the Italian art movement, Pittura Metafisica was founded in 1917 by Carlo Carra (Italian, 1881-1966) and Giorgio de Chirico(Italian, 1888-1978), who met in Ferrara that year.
		Metaphysical Painting provided significant impetus for the development of Dada and Surrealism that was founded with the manifesto by Andre Breton.
		Metabola is different from the symbol because it assumes the interosculation of realities.
	www.bregeda.com /article_vika.html (326 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 2541 - Gud för oss
		The question this study seeks to answer is whether a rejection of metaphysical realism implies that it is impossible for us to make statements about an independent reality that we share with one another, statements that may be evidence-transcendent truths.
		Sometimes metaphysical realism is seen as our only chance to conceive of utterances concerning God as statements about a shared independent reality.
		This study argues, in contrast, that metaphysical realism is an untenable philosophical perspective that ought to be rejected.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?lang=en&isbn=91-7235-024-5 (321 words)

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		Reality is not a part of the human mind; rather the human mind is a part - and a small part at that - of reality.
		Zeus and Hera help each other escape both the naivete of atomistic realism and "the ubiquity of conceptual relativity."27 Each enables the other to distinguish at least some of his or her own theory-relative beliefs from those that are, or at least appear to be, flat out true.
		The most important consequence of metaphysical realism is that truth is supposed to be radically non-epistemic - we might be 'brains in a vat' and so the theory that is 'ideal' from the point of view of operational utility, inner beauty and elegance, 'plausibility', simplicity, 'conservatism', etc., might be false.
	www.phil.uiuc.edu /chandler/Bealism1.html (6978 words)

	HighBeam Research - Article
		Metaphysical realism is a view on the relation between truth and evidence.
		Maybe a metaphysical realist should be disposed to accept that there are possible worlds where weak CTR is not true and thus accept step 1 (even if it does not follow from Methodological Fallibilism and Semantic Naturalista).
		For instance, given Douven's characterization of Methodological Fallibilism, the opponent of metaphysical realism who identifies the truth of a theory with its being epistemically ideal is misrepresented as endorsing the negation of Methodological Fallibilism.
	courses.washington.edu /dbt560/possibilities.doc (4747 words)

	Conceptual Relativity and Metaphysical Realism
		Hilary Putnam, a former proponent of metaphysical realism, later gave it up largely because of the alleged phenomenon that he himself has given the label ‘conceptual relativity’.
		DC If metaphysical realism is correct, then truth must be a matter of straightforward, direct, correspondence between the content of language and thought, on one hand, and how things are with THE WORLD on the other hand.
		This means, of course, that metaphysical realism and conceptual relativity are entirely compatible with one another.
	dingo.sbs.arizona.edu /~thorgan/papers/Conceptual.Relativity.htm (8526 words)

	DuckRabbit: Realism and relativism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first thing to understand is that when I say "realism" I mean the particular class of views also known (somewhat redundantly) as "metaphysical" realism, which does not mean "realism about metaphysical entities" (as opposed to, say, "empirical" ones), but a particular attitude toward objectivity in general (whatever sorts of entity are seen as objective).
		For me, in other words, the question of realism and relativism boils down to the question of what objectivity is (that is: how the concept of objectivity works) and how one can go wrong by misconstruing it.
		Again, to preserve the symmetry here, I abjure the name "realism"; but the point is that I need not object to everything that goes under it, as sometimes it does indeed refer only to the everyday ("commonsense") ideas that realists fail to distinguish from their tendentious theoretical distortions of same.
	duckrabbit.blogspot.com /2005/04/realism-and-relativism.html (1087 words)

	20th WCP: A DNA Account of Propositions as Events: Dummett, Någårjuna, Aristotle
		By accepting metaphysical realism we have committed ourselves to the validity of the following argument: that if a future contingent proposition is determinately either true or false prior to the event to which it refers, then strict determinism must be the case in the world to which that proposition refers.
		Unfortunately, he wandered on to construct a logically unsatisfactory metaphysical theory because of his initial commitment to an inappropriate presupposition: 'inappropriate', that is, in a logical sense because, just like the immediately self-defeating first sentence of his opponent's counter-argument, Aristotle's obstinate clinging to this unnecessary presupposition spelled the internal defeat of his entire project.
		All this is not to deny that 'reality' is real; it is to argue that 'reality' may be real in a way very different to the way we conventionally think it to be real.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieNiza.htm (6376 words)

	Realism, model theory, and linguistic semantics
		Strikingly, Lakoff opposes realism as a metaphysical position, favoring instead some supposedly mild form of idealism such as that recently espoused by Hilary Putnam, going under the name "internal realism." For what he takes to be connected reasons, Lakoff also rejects truth conditional model-theoretic semantics for natural language.
		Realism is defined in Anthony Flew's A Dictionary of Philosophy as: "Most commonly the view (contrasted with idealism) that physical objects exist independently of being perceived."{1} As such, it seems to be purely a metaphysical position, logically independent of semantics.
		However, realism is frequently held to have semantic consequences and, in particular, it seems, at least, to strongly encourage a claim that our words and phrases refer to mind independent things.
	members.aol.com /lshauser/mts.html (3289 words)

	STAR WARS Fans and Metaphysical Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This practice, which I call metaphysical realism, is in a broad sense the same practice on which the entirety of human civilization is built.
		"Realism" because of the notion that those things that "are" belong to a set of things that are "real." Metaphysical non-realism would not assume that anything actually is "real" and would say instead that things are, well, something else, such as ideas we construct or accept in order to make living our lives easier.
		Indeed, one of the problems with metaphysical realism is that it tends to require logical consistency.
	alum.hampshire.edu /~jbfF95/metareal.htm (1055 words)

	vfs
		Despite a radicalism marked by a rejection of metaphysical realism, RC claims to be neutral or "agnostic" with respect to the issue of a single, objectively existing, non-mental world that traditionally divides realists from their idealist opponents (Glasersfeld 1993, p.
		What we ordinarily call "reality" is the reality of the relatively durable perceptual and conceptual structures which we manage to establish, use, and maintain in the flow of actual experience (1989a, p.
		In other words, the dispute between realism and constructivism is one concerning the objective reality of and relations of dependency between knowers and the known (or knowable) world, not an ineffable or noumenal one.
	www.geocities.com /critojazz/vfs (6747 words)

	The “Brain in a Vat” Argument [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		One virtue of this construal is that it defines metaphysical realism at a sufficient level of generality to apply to all philosophers who currently espouse metaphysical realism.
		For Putnam’s metaphysical realist will also agree that truth and reality cannot be subject to “epistemically derived constraints.” This general characterization of metaphysical realism is enough to provide a target for the Brains in a Vat argument.
		For there is a good argument to the effect that if metaphysical realism is true, then global skepticism is also true, that is, it is possible that all of our referential beliefs about the world are false.
	www.iep.utm.edu /b/brainvat.htm (4689 words)

	Aesthetic Realism Foundation International Periodical
		At the basis of Aesthetic Realism is something looked for through the centuries of philosophy and criticism: the explanation of what beauty is; the showing of what is central to, and in common among, art of all times, places, and genres.
		And with that ugly contraction, that exclusivity, there is often the horrible spreading and diffusion which is conquest: we have a right to go forth and do whatever we please to other nations, including attack and subjugate them.
		The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known (TRO) is a biweekly periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
	www.aestheticrealism.net /tro/tro1689.html (2758 words)

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		Putnam's discussion of metaphysical realism exemplifies two typical features of the current realism debate that I have argued against in Realism and Truth (1991): conflating the metaphysical and the semantic; and using semantics to settle metaphysical issues.
		The argument starts from the assumption that the only objective reality to be captured by ascriptions of meanings are verbal dispositions; for example, the disposition to assent to `Gavagai' when provided with the stimulus caused by the presence of a rabbit.
		Anderson argues, rather strangely, that Putnam's real model-theoretic argument is not the argument that critics have taken it to be.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Philosophy/devitt/ONDETE1.DOC (4245 words)

	Mohr Siebeck - Religion, Reality, and a Good Life... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this book, Eberhard Herrmann deals with the problem of realism, which is one of the central issues in the philosophy of religion.
		The author rejects the approaches of metaphysical realism and of postmodern relativism.
		In their place, he develops and presents an alternative approach called pragmatic realism, which embodies two main lines of thought, the first being that reality is always reality as we conceptualize it, the second being that this does not rule out objectivity.
	www.mohr.de /t/n4000_e.htm (304 words)

	JTB: K. Talmont-Kaminski, Predictive Error and Realism (1/2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Perhaps the most basic objection attacks metaphysical realism and is that all of these memories of predictive failure could be explained by nothing more than the workings of our complex mind.
		The significance of metaphysical realism is that there are things to be discovered by us, that we are capable of error, that, essentially, we must be humble.
		It is a very different universe, one that runs counter to common-sense or scientific realism but, as I had previously observed, metaphysical realism is a much weaker claim, one that is perfectly consistent which any number of bizarre 'realities', even the kind of solipsist ones necessary to explain the scope of what appears to us.
	www.jtb-forum.pl /jtb/papers/kt_pear.html (1553 words)

	Metaphysics 2
		Since the structures of (1) and (1) are the same, the metaphysical* realist concludes that both are pointing at the same thing: the quality of “being wise” that is present in both Hugo and Paul.
		Some metaphysical realists (who are usually also scientific realists, which we will come to later) claim that the predicates we require are those needed for a final physical theory, but the objection made by Hempel’s dilemma (considered in our fourteenth piece) makes this problematic.
		Whatever the status of universals, another issue for metaphysics is the make-up of the particulars relied upon by both realist and nominalist alike.
	www.galilean-library.org /int19.html (4880 words)

	Adorno metaphysical experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		metaphysical problems with abstracting from the interconnectedness of phenomena in the world, or from our experience of...
		Metaphysical experience and the possibility of ethics / J.M. Bernstein -- Adorno's notion of natural beauty : a reconsideration / Heinz Paetzold -- Kant, Adorno...
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	www.1-metaphysical.com /94/Adorno-metaphysical-experience.html (574 words)

	Metaphysical Pluralism
		Hume is the St. Francis of modern metaphysics, the patron saint of ontological ascetics.
		The monist maintains that the autonomous domains of facts are all part of a single universe or metaphysical totality; whereas the pluralist seems to be denying the unity of factual language, opting instead for the view that a variety of different uses of language share certain superficial characteristics--Wittgenstein's common clothing of the diversity of language-games.
		For the metaphysical view requires that there be a non-trivial sense in which the various discourses to which it applies are all serving the same linguistic function.
	www.usyd.edu.au /time/price/preprints/metapluralism.html (8240 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Philosophical theories, he suggests, are attempts to answer questions that are not really questions at all (they are nonsense), or to solve problems that are not really problems.
		If we really try to picture a world of private objects (sensations) and inner acts of meaning and so on, we see that what we picture is either regular public language or incomprehensible behavior (the man might as well quack as say or write 'S').
		Both Realism and Anti-Realism, though, are theories, or schools of theories, and Wittgenstein explicitly rejects the advocacy of theories in philosophy.
	www.iep.utm.edu /w/wittgens.htm (6909 words)

	Hauptli's Supplement on BonJour's Chapter 8
		He wishes to defend the traditional, common-sensical view which he will call metaphysical realism which is centered upon a correspondence theory of the nature of truth (rather than a coherence theory of its nature).
		--An undiscussed alternative: "metaphysical pragmatism"--agrees with metaphysical realism that there is an independent reality, but disagrees with the notion of "correspondence, agreement, or copying" and, instead, speaks of agreement in terms of "the results of action" (or "workability") rather than in efficacy of representation.
		Of course, there are other alternatives than metaphysical "realism" and "pragmatism" when one considers the possible relationships between us and the "independent" world (if there is such): one might maintain that the proper relationship is one of "worship," or "aesthetic appreciation." Of course, these views might not assign much importance to epistemic justification!
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/Bonjour'sTheStructureofEmpiricalKnowledgeChapter8.html (4103 words)

	Metaphysical: Visionary Fiction & Mystical Romance: Rainbow Goddess, The Shifting Shroud, The Novel, The Rainbow ...
		Metaphysical: Visionary Fiction and Mystical Romance: Rainbow Goddess, the novel.
		A new reality is forged when Earth's magnetic poles shift, revealing hidden layers of inter-dimensional intrigue.
		Mystical: metaphysical fiction and magical realism from Rainbow Goddess, the novel.
	www.moontress.com (218 words)

	Four-World Pluralism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Different kinds of Realism are divided when it comes to saying whether observations can, in principle be true; and the alternative is that observations must always be explained by theory.
		The most important way of evaluating metaphysical and epistemological theories is by seeing them as solutions to problems.
		FWP seeks to explain the metaphysics of Realism.
	home.earthlink.net /~enigl/FWP.htm (4936 words)

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