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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”

3Jul 20202 Jul 2020

[Book Review] Integralism

A review of and response to Thomas Crean, OP and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy (Haverton, PA:…

30Jun 20201 Jul 2020

[Book Review] Nihilism & Technology | Nihilism

A review of and response to Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Ltd.) and Nihilism (Cambridge,…

20Mar 202020 Mar 2020

[Article] Was Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange a Personalist?

A Rapprochement Between the Individual-Person Distinction and the Primacy of the Common Good Contra Maritain’s Personalism[1] Taylor Patrick O’Neill Assistant…

Make Disciples of All Nations

9 Jul 20209 Jul 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…

Essay

[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,…

Essay

[Essay] The Roots of Human Dignity & its Modern Dissolution – Part I

19 Mar 202030 Jun 2020

Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX Editor, Reality The following is part I of II. See Part II here. As modern secularism strives to…

Issues

[Issue] The Philosophy of Realism

4 Mar 20208 Mar 2020

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…

[Article] Made of Flame and Air

21 Feb 202020 Mar 2020

A response to Kirk Kanzelberger Michael J. Dodds, O.P. Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Berkeley, CA Abstract: I comment on certain aspects of Kirk Kanzelberger’s article, “Reality and the…

[Article] The Philosophical Implications of Sense Realism

5 Feb 20203 Mar 2020

A Response to Daniel Wagner James D. Capehart, Ph.D. Sacred Heart Apostolic School Rolling Prairie, IN [response to daniel wagner, "the logical terms of sense realism"] Download Issue Version PDF…

[Article] Aquinas On Suppositum, Essence & Universals

5 Feb 20205 Feb 2020

Seth Kreeger PhD Candidate Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology [online only response to daniel wagner, "the logical terms of sense realism"] Download as PDF Having read “The Logical…

[Article] Signs and Reality

9 Dec 201919 Mar 2020

An advocation for semiotic realism[1] Brian Kemple, PhD Continuum Philosophical Insight Executive Editor, Reality ABSTRACT: The world today has a “meaning” problem. That is: while the attainment of “meaning” poses…

[Article] The Analogy of Res-ality

9 Dec 20193 Mar 2020

Reflections in Response to Brian Kemple Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.D. Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Pittsburgh, PA ABSTRACT: I have been asked to write a response to…

[Article] The Logical Terms of Sense Realism

27 Nov 201919 Mar 2020

A Thomistic-Aristotelian & Phenomenological Defense Daniel C. Wagner Professor and Chair of Philosophy Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI Editor, Reality ABSTRACT: At the heart of realist philosophy is the doctrine…