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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.

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

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.

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

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

Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the Sophists and Thucydides to the modern era.