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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”

11Dec 202011 Dec 2020

[Article] How To Be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan

Adam Pugen, PhDUniversity of TorontoInstitute of Communication, Culture,Information and Technology ABSTRACT: The provocative nature of both the form and content,…

25Aug 202025 Aug 2020

[Essay] Civic Life and Home

The Paradox of Political Philosophy Brian Jones, PhD CandidateUniversity of St. Thomas, Houston TX Commentators across the political spectrum have…

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:…

[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…

[Book Review] What Love Is

11 Nov 201916 Jun 2020

Written by Brian Kemple A review of and response to Carrie Jenkins’ What Love Is: And What It Could Be, (New York: Basic Books, 2017).[1] The Ruin and Salvation of…

Essay

[Essay] Aristotle on Nature (φύσις) – Part II

5 Nov 201910 Jun 2020

Ancient Source of Katharsis for the Lived Nihilism of Modernity Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D.Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MIEditor, Reality The following is part II (of II) in a working paper adapted…

[Article] Reality and the Meaning of Evil

28 Oct 201919 Mar 2020

Kirk Kanzelberger, PhD Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH ABSTRACT: “Evil is really only a privation.” This philosophical commonplace reflects an ancient solution to the problem of theodicy in one of…

Essay

[Essay] Aristotle on Nature (φύσις) – Part I

25 Oct 201912 Apr 2020

Ancient Source of Katharsis for the Lived Nihilism of Modernity Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D. Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MI Editor, Reality The following is part I (of II) in a working…

[Article] Classical Realism in a Democratic Context

17 Oct 20193 Mar 2020

Brian Jones, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX ABSTRACT: In this response to Francisco Plaza’s paper, I have two primary aims. First, to highlight and further explore…

[Article] Political Science and Realism

17 Oct 20193 Mar 2020

Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX Editor, Reality ABSTRACT: This article contrasts the pursuit of political science from a classically realist perspective versus a…

[Article] Interpretation and Traditions

10 Jul 201915 Oct 2019

Written by Brian Kemple [download pdf]An intersection for semiotics, phenomenology, and Thomism My topic in this article develops from themes I have advanced or at least suggested in both Ens Primum…