2009/01/14 by Andreas Lösch · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought #Realism #Critical realism (philosophy of perception) #Philosophical realism #Epistemology #Philosophy #Scientific realism #Direct and indirect realism #Relation (database) #German #Connection (principal bundle) #Philosophy of science #Mathematics #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1080/14746700802617105
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Critical realism has been used in connection with different epistemological positions. The article reviews its different uses in German, American, and British philosophy and examines its relation to Barbour's introduction of the term in the science and theology debate. The result is that there is a close connection to scientific realism, but not to philosophical critical realism in a narrower sense. Critical realism is a type of realism defining the term in Kant's sense as related to the question of the existence of the tempospatial world. It distinguishes itself as a middle way between naïve realism and other extremes.