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1. Introduction -- 2. Local realism and anti-realism : the existence axis -- 3. Local realism and anti-realism : the independence axis -- 4. Idealism -- 5. Kantianism -- 6. Verificationism -- 7. Colour -- 8. Morality -- 9. Science -- 10. Mathematics -- 11. Possible worlds -- 12. Fictional characters.

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Semantics of Realism -- 3. The Metaphysics of Realism -- 4. The Anthropology of Realism -- 5. The Psychology of Realism -- 6. The Epistemology of Realism -- 7. The Applications of Realism -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Picture Held Us Captive -- 2. Escaping the Picture -- 3. Checking Beliefs -- 4. Contact Theory: The Place of the Preconceptual -- 5. Embodied Understanding -- 6. Fusing Horizons -- 7. Realism Retrieved -- 8. Plural Realism -- Index.

The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics. After some years in the doldrums, political realism is again in contention as a leading tradition in the international relations sub-field. Divided into three main sections, the book covers seven different and distinctive approaches within the realist tradition: classical realism, balance of power theory, neorealism, defensive structural realism, offensive structural realism, rise and fall realism, and neoclassical realism. The middl.

"The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics"--

In Continental Realism Paul Ennis tackles the rise of realist metaphysics in contemporary continental philosophy. Pitted against the dominant antirealist and transcendental continental hegemony Ennis argues that continental thinking must establish an alliance between metaphysics, speculation, and realism if we are to truly get back to the things themselves

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. VR101: Confused about virtual reality? What is it? Here's a guide for complete beginners. -- 2. Virtual Realism: Between the future shock of network idealists and the naïve realism of the Unabomber runs a middle path. It is the peaceful road of virtual realism. Ten signposts mark the way. -- 3. The Art of Virtual Reality: Artists teach us how to marry technology with spirit. PlaceHolder and the Virtual Dervish provide lessons in virtual realism. What do you learn from spending six hours in a headmounted display? Here's a report. -- 4. Interactive Design: Tunnel Or Spiral? Since the 1960s, artists-from Glenn Gould to Jim Morrison-prepared us for digital interaction. The same artists now help us understand how to build holistic virtual worlds. -- 5. InfoEcology: Survival dictates that we integrate information systems with planetary ecology. Virtual Reality is already cleaning nuclear waste sites left by the Cold War. One engineering project adds photogrammetry to virtual realism. -- 6. Nature and Cyberspace: Does nature end where cyberspace begins? Or can we put nature into cyberspace? The author looks at the puzzle through some personal life history. -- 7. AWS and UFOs: Why do alien intruders populate so many nightmares? What brings them to us? Consider these visitors our future selves, summoning us from the not-too-distant technological future. -- Notes on Artists and Works -- Chapter Notes -- Vocabulary of Virtual Realism -- Suggested Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

A tale of two movements -- The seeds of time : legal realism and legal history -- The wealth of historicism : legal history in the critical mold -- Everything flows and nothing abides : the realist turn to social science-- Oh, the tangled webs we weave : the CLS critique of social science -- Night of the living dead : legal realist anticonceptualism -- The world well lost : variations on the linguistic theme -- Realizing realism : reconstruction in legal theory

Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in contemporary sociology, like systems theory and rational choice theory. Divided into three parts, social ontology, sociological theory, and methodology, each part includes a systematic presentation, a comment, and a wider discussion by the editors, thereby taking on the form of a dialogue among experts. This book is a uniquely blended and consistent conversation showing the convergence of European social theory on a critical realist and relational way of thinking. This volume is extremely important both for teaching purposes and for all those scholars who wish to get a fresh perspective on some deep dynamics of contemporary sociology.

Colin Marshall offers a ground-up defense of objective morality, in which the central role is played by compassion. Only compassion, Marshall argues, lets us be in touch with others' motivational mental properties. Compassionate Moral Realism offers a new answer to the question "Why be moral?", a central philosophical concern since Plato.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: realism, discourse and deconstruction; 2 Critical realism and semiosis; 3 Critical realism, critical discourse analysis, concrete research; 4 How might the inclusion of discursive approaches enrich critical realist analysis?; 5 Will the materialists in the Bakhtin Circle please stand up?; 6 Value and contract formation; 7 Lost in transit: reconceptualising the real; 8 Laclau and Mouffe and the discursive turn; 9 Eurocentrism, realism, and the anthropic cartography of emancipation