irrealist

Such critics disdain experiemental or irrealist fiction (or even just insistently comic fiction) because the farther one gets from realism conventionally defined, the harder it becomes to apply these critical methods.

Realism in Fiction 2008

This does not necessarily show that it is preferable to irrealist versions of naturalism.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

Nor is this reading of Ryle a standard one: even many of his students interpreted him as a behaviourist and irrealist.

Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

These irrealist views are naturalist in the sense that they do not posit any moral facts in accounting for moral practice, and a fortiori do not posit any non-natural moral facts.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

The constraints placed on theories of morality by naturalist considerations will apply, mutatis mutandis, to these cases too, militating against theories that posit non-natural normative facts and in favour of naturalist alternatives, of either a realist or irrealist stripe.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

Still, this does not mean that irrealist views of mathematics and modality are the only remaining option.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

One genus of moral naturalism is irrealist about moral facts.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

The currently most popular irrealist views of mathematics and modality are fictionalist.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

There we saw reasons for dismissing ˜normative non-naturalism™ in favour of naturalist views of either an irrealist or realist stripe.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

He is an irrealist not only about universals, but also about propositions, events, times other than the present, natural kinds, relations, wholes, absolute space, hylomorphic composites, and the like.

Peter Abelard King, Peter 2004