Realism

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

• Philosophical realism, belief that reality exists independently of observers. Related positions include:
  • Aesthetic realism (metaphysics)
  • Agential realism (Barad)
  • Australian realism
  • Austrian realism
  • Conceptualist realism (Wiggins)
  • Critical realism (disambiguation)
  • Dialectical realism (Hacking)
  • Direct realism
  • Empirical realism
  • Entity realism
  • Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)
  • Internal realism (Putnam)
  • Local realism, a term used by Einstein in the context of the principle of locality
  • Logical realism, the conviction the rules of logic are mind-independent
  • Metaphysical realism
  • Modal realism
  • Model-dependent realism (Hawking and Mlodinow)
  • Moderate realism
  • Moral realism
  • Naïve realism
  • New realism (philosophy)
  • Peircean realism
  • Platonic realism
  • Quasi-realism
  • Realistic rationalism (Katz)
  • Referential realism
  • Romantic realism
  • Scientific realism
    • Musgrave's scientific realism
  • Scotistic realism
  • Semantic realism (epistemology) (a position criticized by Dummett)
  • Semantic realism (philosophy of science) (Psillos)
  • Semirealism (Chakravartty)
  • Set-theoretic realism (Maddy)
  • Speculative realism
  • Structuralism (philosophy of science)
  • Transcendental realism (Schelling, Schopenhauer, Bhaskar)
  • Truth-value link realism (a position criticized by Dummett)

• Realist views in the social sciences include:
  • Ethnographic realism, a writing style that narrates the author's anthropological observations as if they were first-hand
  • Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence
  • Realism (international relations), the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest
    • Neorealism (international relations)
  • Structural realism, in international relations

• Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully. Related movements include:
  • Literary realism, a movement from the mid 19th to the early 20th century
  • Neorealism (art)
    • Italian neorealism (film)
    • Indian neorealism (film)
  • New realism, a movement founded in 1960
  • Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group
  • Theatrical realism, one of the many types of theatre such as Naturalism
  • Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an art movement
• Created by Brian, like every other saying

Media

• Realistic (album), an album by Ivy
• Realistic (brand), a brand of home audio electronics produced by RadioShack
• Realism (Steril album), an album by Steril
• Realism (The Magnetic Fields album), an album by The Magnetic Fields

Politics

• Czech Realist Party, former political party in Austria-Hungary
• Realists (political party), conservative political party in the Czech Republic

See also

• Anti-realism
• Critical realism (disambiguation)
• Depressive realism
• Digitalism
• Irrealism (disambiguation)
• Neorealism (disambiguation)
• Pseudorealism
• Raëlism
• Reality
• Real (disambiguation)
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