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From the Editorial Introduction:This first issue of Reality—The Philosophy of Realism—like most publications and especially those of a collaborative effort, signifies innumerable hours of effort.  The goal of our journal is simple: to reinvigorate an intelligent discussion about realism as a philosophical approach.  By a realist approach, we mean not…Continue reading “Latest Issue”

3May 20229 May 2022

[Article] Life in the Anti-Environment

Learning How to Play Adam PugenPost-Doctoral FellowUniversity of Toronto ABSTRACT: This paper explores the perceptual implications of video games, and…

7Feb 202215 Mar 2022
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[Article] No Cause, No Credo

Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Nature as Preambula Fidei Accompanied by Tkacz, “Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Creation, the Cosmogonical Fallacy, and…

15Aug 2021

[Article] Christian Philosophy as an Existential Habitus

Francisco PlazaPhD CandidateUniversity of St. Thomas, TXEditor, Reality[1] ABSTRACT: In this paper we shall explore Jacques Maritain’s definition of “Christian…

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[Article] Theistic Creation and Natural Philosophy

15 Mar 202215 Mar 2022
Accompanies Wagner, "No Cause, No Credo" and Tkacz, "Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Creation, the Cosmogonical Fallacy, and the Intelligibility of Nature" Steven BaldnerSt. Francis Xavier UniversityChair of Philosophy PDF with…
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[Article] Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Creation, the Cosmogonical Fallacy, and the Intelligibility of Nature

15 Feb 202215 Mar 2022
Accompanies Wagner, "No Cause, No Credo" and Baldner, "Theistic Creation and Natural Philosophy" Michael W. TkaczGonzaga UniversityBernard J. Coughlin S.J.Professor of Christian Philosophy PDF with article by Wagner and response…
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[Essay] The Constitution of Culture

4 Aug 20215 Aug 2021
Specifying Objects and Jacques Maritain on the Temporal Order Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive DirectorLyceum InstituteEditor, Reality But it remains that culture and civilization have a specifying object—the earthly and perishable good…
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[Article] On the Cenoscopic and the Idioscopic

14 May 20214 May 2022
And Why They Matter[1] Fr. Scott Randall PaineProfessor of PhilosophyUniversity of Brasilia, Brazilhttps://3wisdoms.com ABSTRACT:  We are accustomed to viewing polarities in the world of knowledge lined up like adversaries: science…
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[Essay] Tradition of Questioning

29 Aug 2020
A challenge to Thomists at the Digital Crossroads Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive EditorReality Nearly a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we Thomists and those of similar intellectual pedigree…
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[Essay] Civic Life and Home

25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020
The Paradox of Political Philosophy Brian Jones, PhD CandidateUniversity of St. Thomas, Houston TX Commentators across the political spectrum have agreed upon very little over the last few decades.  This…
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[Essay] Make Disciples of All Nations

9 Jul 202025 Aug 2020
Response to Plaza's Review of Integralism. Alan Fimister St. John Vianney Theological Seminary Denver, CO In a recent review in this journal, the book Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy…
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[Book Review] Integralism

3 Jul 202014 May 2021
A review of and response to Thomas Crean, OP and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy (Haverton, PA: Eurospan | Editiones Scholasticae, 2020). An Apologia for Catholic Democracy…
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[Book Review] Nihilism & Technology | Nihilism

30 Jun 20201 Jul 2020
A review of and response to Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Ltd.) and Nihilism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019). Ecce Homo Creator: a Tragedy Brian…
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[Essay] The Conflict between Human Dignity and Abortion – Part II

10 Jun 20202 Jul 2020
  Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX Editor, Reality The following is part II of II.  See Part I here. In the encyclical Evangelium vitae,…

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