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Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

In the arts

  • Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts

Arts movements related to realism include:

In philosophy

Related realist philosophies include:

  • Aesthetic realism (metaphysics)
  • Agential realism (Barad)
  • Australian realism
  • Austrian realism
  • Conceptualist realism (Wiggins)
  • Critical realism (disambiguation)
  • Dialectical realism (Hacking)
  • Direct realism
  • Empirical realism
  • Entity realism
  • Epistemic structural realism
  • Epistemological realism
  • Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)
  • Internal realism, also known as "pragmatic realism" (Putnam)
  • Local realism, the view held by the authors of the EPR paper
  • Logical realism, the conviction the rules of logic are mind-independent
  • Metaphysical realism
  • Modal realism
  • Model-dependent realism (Hawking and Mlodinow)
  • Moderate realism
  • Moral realism
  • Naïve realism
  • New realism (philosophy)
  • Ontic structural realism
  • Peircean realism
  • Perspectival realism
  • Platonic realism
  • Quasi-realism
  • Rational realism (Bardili)
  • Realistic monism (G. Strawson)
  • Realistic rationalism (Katz)
  • Referential realism
  • Romantic realism
  • Scientific realism
    • Musgrave's scientific realism
  • Scotistic realism
  • Semantic realism (epistemology) (a position criticized by Dummett)
  • Semantic realism (philosophy of science) (Psillos)
  • Semirealism (Chakravartty)
  • Set-theoretic realism (Maddy)
  • Speculative realism
  • Subtle realism
  • Transcendental realism (Schelling, Schopenhauer, Bhaskar)
  • Truth-value link realism (a position criticized by Dummett)

In the social sciences

Realist approaches in the social sciences include:

  • Ethnographic realism, either a descriptive word, i.e. of or relating to the first-hand participant-observation practices of ethnographers, or a writing style or genre that narrates in a similar fashion.
  • Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence
  • Realism (international relations), the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest
    • Classical realism (international relations)
    • Neorealism (international relations)
  • Structural realism, in international relations
  • Subtle realism, in social science research methodology

Media

  • Realistic (album), an album by Ivy
  • Realism (Steril album), an album by Steril
  • Realism (The Magnetic Fields album), an album by The Magnetic Fields

Politics

  • Czech Realist Party, former political party in Austria-Hungary
  • Realists (political party), conservative political party in the Czech Republic

Other uses

  • Realistic (brand), a brand of home audio electronics produced by RadioShack

See also

  • Anti-realism
  • Classical realism (disambiguation)
  • Critical realism (disambiguation)
  • Depressive realism
  • Digitalism
  • Irrealism (disambiguation)
  • Neorealism (disambiguation)
  • Pseudorealism
  • Raëlism
  • Reality
  • Real (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with realism
  • All pages with titles containing realism
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