Often associated with the work of Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-1796), and German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
Usually used in either of two ways:
(1) the view that abstract concepts have a real existence and can be studied empirically;
(2) the doctrine that the physical world has a reality separate from that of the mind.
Over the reality of universals (see Platonism) and other abstract objects, realism contrasts mainly with nominalism and conceptualism (see also: resemblance theories of universals).
In dealing with the reality and status of things around us, it contrasts with idealism and phenomenalism. It contrasts with anti-realism on the possibility of truths independent of our powers of verifying them or manifesting knowledge of them.
All this suggests that realism (like ‘real’) is mainly defined by contrast. As with many philosophical terms, ‘realist’ can apply to some features of a view to other features of which some contrasting term applies.
Compare with: causal realism, critical realism, modal realism, naive realism, perspective realism
Source:
D N Robinson, An Intellectual History of Psychology (London, 1976)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World
- 2.2 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
- 2.3 The Realism Challenge: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealism
- 2.4 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- 2.5 Realism: Sugar and Spice, Ink
- 2.6 Speculative Realism: An Introduction
- 2.7 Realism
- 2.8 Realism in the 19th Century
- 2.9 Maarifa Street: Magic Realism 2
- 2.10 Orchestration 301: The MIDI Orchestra Enhancing Realism
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Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World
- Hardcover Book
- Seed, John (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 208 Pages - 09/28/2019 (Publication Date) - Schiffer (Publisher)
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Gurney, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 10/20/2009 (Publication Date) - Andrews McMeel Publishing (Publisher)
The Realism Challenge: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealism
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Crilley, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 162 Pages - 05/05/2015 (Publication Date) - Watson-Guptill (Publisher)
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- Zero Books
- Fisher, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 81 Pages - 12/16/2009 (Publication Date) - Zero Books (Publisher)
Realism: Sugar and Spice, Ink
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Grace, Evan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 271 Pages - 04/02/2019 (Publication Date)
Speculative Realism: An Introduction
- Harman, Graham (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 190 Pages - 10/08/2018 (Publication Date) - Polity (Publisher)
Realism in the 19th Century
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- German, English, French (Subtitles)
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Maarifa Street: Magic Realism 2
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- English (Publication Language)
- 05/17/2005 (Publication Date) - Nyen (Publisher)
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