Realism

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

• Philosophical realism, belief that reality exists independently of observers
  • Agential realism (Barad)
  • 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
  • Model-dependent realism
  • Referential realism
  • Scientific realism
    • Musgrave's scientific realism
  • Scotistic realism
  • Semantic realism (epistemology) (a position criticized by Dummett)
  • Semantic realism (philosophy of science) (Psillos)
  • Speculative realism
  • Structuralism (philosophy of science)
  • Transcendental realism
  • Truth-value link realism (a position criticized by Dummett)

• Pragmatism
  • Pragmatic ethics, in the terminology of Charles Sanders Peirce ("Peircean realism")
  • Ethnographic realism, a writing style that narrates the author's anthropological observations as if they were first-hand
  • Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence
  • Structural realism, in international relations
  • Realism (international relations), the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest

• Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully
  • Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group
  • Literary realism, a movement from the mid 19th to the early 20th century
  • Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, art movement
  • Theatrical realism, one of the many types of theatre such as Naturalism

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)
• Digitalism
• Irrealism (disambiguation)
• Pseudorealism
• Raëlism
• Reality
• Real (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "realism"
• All pages with a title containing realism