Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts -- Introduction: realism then and now / Andrew Hemingway -- The transactions of detail / Briony Fer -- Realism's credibility problem / Joshua Shannon -- ...
Why they are like oil and water. Naturalism is the idea that there is no such person as God or anything like God; we might think of it as high-octane atheism or perhaps atheism-plus. It is possible to ...
The University of Illinois Press is one of the leading publishers of humanities and social sciences journals in the country. Founded in 1918, the Press publishes more than 40 journals representing 18 ...
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? We look at the history of artists ...
ABSTRACT: This article examines elements of determinism and naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's twenty-first-century novels, No Country for Old Men and The Road. While naturalism has been noted in ...
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." - David Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding) After two years of blogging, it's time to take stock. What have I been saying? Not much ...
This is part 3 of this interview: click here for part 2. This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of ...