Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1324 for “"realism"”.
-
MORAL REALISM
… theories that have come to be known as moral realism. Over the last twenty years or so, much of the work within philosophical ethics have been concerned with discussing the debate between moral realists and their opponents. Most moral philosophers now accept that some form of cognitivism about …
-
Realism and anti-realism in the work of George Lukács
This essay sets out to explore Lukács's views on realism and its polar opposite. anti-realism, in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. As a Marxist, Lukács's views on literature are closely interwoven with his views of society and and social development. This necessitates first looking at …
-
Howells' Dialogic Realism
This study traces the changes in Howells' narrative techniques as he confronted the paradox that novels create their own narrative logic and unity independent of (and often contrary to) the vision of reality depicted in the work. Howells' novels are characterized by competing or contradictory …
-
The metaphorical problem : realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of metaphor
… in some detail in recent work on the nature of realism and anti-realism. The thesis has five chapters. In the first chapter, I outline, motivate and evaluate two contrasting approaches to realism, proposed by Michael Devitt and Crispin Wright. I argue that neither is wholly satisfactory, but …
-
REALISM ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE FICTIONS
In this paper, I argue for the thesis that some impossible propositions are true-in-fiction, and I suggest that we ought to take the datum that we seem to engage with non-vacuous impossible contents, seriously. I discuss a trilemma presented by Derek Matravers that highlights some tensions between …
-
Peter Railton's moral realism
… of American philosopher Peter Railton's moral realism. The emphasis is placed on his synthetic naturalistic account. He holds that there are moral propositions which can be true or false; moral facts and properties are natural facts and properties; we can come to know or justify moral judgments …
-
Challenges to Effective Realism
… counted against it, especially in pro-realism discourse. For example, many realists take the interpretation of a theory to amount to specifying what the world would be like was the theory true (or characterizing the possible worlds picked out by the theory). But effective theories are …
-
Realism & Language: How Luis Alberto Urrea Uses Bilingualism to Elevate His Works of Realism
… use. In looking at these works, a new aspect of realism has the ability to come forward within literature as we see Urrea use language in a progressive way. <em>Across The Wire: Life and Times on the Mexican Border</em> (1993) shows Urrea using Spanish to bring readers closer to the culture of …
-
The Realism of George Moore
… Eliot, and Hardy with regard to elements of realism. One typical novel of each author was examined in detail, and references were made to other novels of the three writers. Findings. It was found that Moore brought to the English novel a distinctly new creation in realism. His borrowing from …
-
Moral Disagreement and Moral Realism
… a novel argument from disagreement against moral realism. Moral anti-realists have long suspected that something about the scope and/or nature of moral disagreement threatens moral realism, but existing arguments are either unsound, or rely upon premises which are too question-begging to anyone …
-
The realism of Stephen Crane
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1936. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
-
Imitation realism and Australian art
… It is argued in this thesis that Imitation Realism arose as a response to what the artists saw as the inadequacy of local art practice. This was a result of a disconnection that they saw between contemporary art and daily life in Australia. The Imitation Realists found that both abstract and …
-
Scientific realism vs. scientific antirealism
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically approximately true and that their key terms typically refer. The no-miracle argument for the view holds that approximate truth and reference provide the best explanation of the success of science. I try …
-
Imitation realism and Australian art
… It is argued in this thesis that Imitation Realism arose as a response to what the artists saw as the inadequacy of local art practice. This was a result of a disconnection that they saw between contemporary art and daily life in Australia. The Imitation Realists found that both abstract and …
-
Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
American literary realism and naturalism emerged in an era in which the forces of capital were remaking not only the American social landscape, but also the physical landscape as such. Social upheaval was accompanied by new experiences of physical speed, telecommunications, and the mechanization of …
-
Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
This thesis critically assesses ‘relaxed realism’ – a group of views that have entered the metaethical debate recently (Dworkin, 1996; Kramer, 2009; Parfit, 2011; Scanlon, 2014). Relaxed realism promises a novel perspective on our normative practice. In particular, it aims for a view that is …
-
A defense of intentional realism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
Page 1 of 67