New post on Philosophics.blog: Perspectival Realism – The Enchantment of the In-Between

Reality exists only so long as no one agrees on what it is.
Consensus kills the spell.
A reflection on realism, idealism, and why “truth” depends on where you’re standing.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/perspectival-realism-enchantment/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

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Perspectival Realism

New article by @michelamassimi provides a very helpful primer to “perspectival realism,” which views science as “the historically and culturally situated product of myriad epistemic communities.”

https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14981

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In their new article, Rafael González and Lisa Bortolotti (@lisabortolotti) compare and contrast scientific realism and anti-realism and discuss recent approaches: perspectival realism and the integrative.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2156150

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Putting scientific realism into perspective

In this paper, we offer a brief overview of the debate between realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of science. On the background of that debate, we consider two recently developed approaches...

Taylor & Francis