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Abstract. Hierarchy theory arose in the middle of the 1960s, as a result of a convergence from contributions of different disciplines that shared an interest for complexity, such as economy, chemistry, and biology. From the perspective... more
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      Realism vs Anti-RealismHierarchy TheoryRealismRealismo Antirealismo
Nel seguente scritto analizzerò la posizione filosofica del Prospettivismo Scientifico, o Realismo Prospettivista. A questo scopo, presenterò le principali implicazioni del pensiero di Ronald Giere e, in particolare, della sua monografia,... more
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      Model TheoryMetaphysicsEpistemologyPhilosophy of Science
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      Evolutionary BiologyHuman EvolutionPhilosophyMetaphysics
Este trabajo aborda las posiciones epistemológicas de Luhmann y Bhaskar, en cuyo marco comparamos sus concepciones de unidad de análisis y conocimiento científico. Nuestra hipótesis es que ambos plantearon la distinción entre realismo y... more
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      Niklas LuhmannEpistemologíaRoy BhaskarMetodología y Teoría de la Investigación Social
Bas van Fraassen's antirealist view of science and its aim, constructive empiricism, notoriously rests upon a distinction between observable and unobservable entities. In order to back his empiricist stance, the Dutch philosopher put... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceEmpiricismGeneral Philosophy of ScienceScientific Realism
This work aimed to analyze the relationship between art and politics, based on the aesthetic conception of the triumph of realism, originally indicated by Friedrich Engels. For this, the theoretical categories came from a letter in which... more
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      English LiteratureMarxismLiteratureCritical Realism
Il Manifesto S-naturalista di Enrico Bernard con le illustrazioni di Dario Fo è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1993 all’interno della rivista “Ridotto” (nr. 1-2, gennaio-febbraio 1993, pp. 44-54). Successivamente in:... more
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      Commedia dell'arteItalo CalvinoFilosofíaLetteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea
Dummett’s Manifestation Argument –or Challenge- against realism attempts to show that a realist conception of meaning cannot explain the existence of understanding of truth-conditions transcendent to evidence. In this work the general... more
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      Realism vs Anti-RealismThe Realism/Antirealism ConflictRealismo AntirealismoManifestation Argument
by Marcos Rodrigues da Silva and Debora Minikoski Resumo: o breve artigo é uma réplica à resposta de Alessio Gava ao artigo "Van Fraassen e a inferência da melhor explicação", publicado em Problemata (v. 7. n. 1, 2016), de autoria de... more
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      EmpiricismStructural Scientific RealismScientific RealismRealism vs Anti-Realism
No Tratado da natureza humana, David Hume dedica uma longa seção à problemática sobre a possibilidade da existência do mundo externo intitulada “Do ceticismo quanto aos sentidos”. A seção traz idas e vindas do autor no que diz respeito à... more
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      HumeCritical RealismRealism (Philosophy)Realism (Political Science)
Some reflections on Nelson Goodman’s ontological pluralism (as emerging from his Ways of Worldmaking) and its influence on contemporary philosophy, taking the querelle with Quine in the columns of The New York Review of Books as a... more
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      OntologyNelson GoodmanPhilosophy of ArtSocial Ontology
Martin Kusch has recently defended Bas van Fraassen's controversial view on microscopes, according to which these devices are not "windows on an invisible world", but rather "image generators". Both authors also claim that, since in a... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceEmpiricismHistory of Philosophy of ScienceGeneral Philosophy of Science
The manifestation challenge against realism raises the question of how the realist can explain the understanding of the truth-conditions of evidence-transcendent propositions, to which he seems to be committed. Here it is contended that... more
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      Realism vs Anti-RealismCompositionalityRealismo AntirealismoManifestation Argument
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      Category TheoryRelativismSelf-Reference, Reflexivity, ReflectionRealism
Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realist attitude... more
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      German StudiesComparative LiteratureFrench LiteratureGerman Literature
In a recent work published in this journal, "Van Fraassen e a inferência da melhor explicação" (2016), Minikoski and Rodrigues da Silva identify four critical lines proposed by Bas van Fraassen against the form of abductive reasoning... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceScientific RealismFilosofia De Las CienciasConstructive empiricism
In their recent "A modest defense of manifestationalism" (2015), Asay and Bordner defend this position from a quite famous criticism put forward by Rosen (1994), according to which while manifestationalism can be seen as more compatible... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceEmpiricismStructural Scientific RealismScientific Realism
The emphasis on the role of observation, one of the hallmarks of Empiricism, is reaffirmed by the primacy of the distinction between observable and unobservable in Bas van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism. In this paper it will be... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceHistory of Philosophy of ScienceConstructive empiricismObservation
This is a critical review of the book Variational Approach to Gravity Field Theories-From Newton to Einstein and Beyond (2017), written by the Italian astrophysicist Alberto Vecchiato. In his work, Vecchiato shows that physics, as we know... more
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      PhysicsGeneral RelativityDifferential GeometryRealism vs Anti-Realism
Martin Kusch has recently defended Bas van Fraassen’s controversial view on microscopes, according to which these devices are not “windows on an invisible world”, but rather “image generators”. Both authors also claim that, since in a... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceEmpiricismHistory of Philosophy of ScienceGeneral Philosophy of Science
Tradução de "Bas van Fraassen’s Philosophy of Science and His Epistemic Voluntarism", de Kathleen Okruhlik (2014). Bas van Fraassen’s anti-realist account of science has played a major role in shaping recent philosophy of science. His... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceEmpiricismStructural Scientific RealismScientific Realism
In this interview, Mario De Caro discusses about most important problems of ‘Realism’: from linguistic and conceptual characterization just before the role where Realism takes on science and epistemology. In this case De Caro presents his... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy Of LanguagePhilosophy of ScienceLanguages and Linguistics
In this interview, Mario De Caro discusses about most important problems of ‘Realism’: from linguistic and conceptual characterization just before the role where Realism takes on science and epistemology. In this case De Caro presents his... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy Of LanguageEducationLanguages and Linguistics