Realism

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:

• Literary realism, a movement from the mid 19th to the early 20th century
• Neorealism (art)
  • Italian neorealism (film)
  • Indian neorealism (film)
• New realism, a movement founded in 1960
• Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group
• Theatrical realism, one of the many types of theatre such as Naturalism
• Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an art movement

In philosophy

• Philosophical realism

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
• Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)
• Internal realism (Putnam)
• Local realism, a term used by Einstein in the context of the principle of locality
• 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)
• Peircean realism
• Platonic realism
• Quasi-realism
• 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
• Structuralism (philosophy of science)
• 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
  • Neorealism (international relations)
• Structural realism, in international relations

Media

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

See also

• Anti-realism
• 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