Magic(al) realism

Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz i...

The study of magic in medieval Europe is a burgeoning field. The present volume offers an overview of current, cutting-edge scholarship on magic in the Middle Ages based in close s...

‘Realism and anti-realism’ is concerned with the debate between scientific realism and its converse, anti-realism or instrumentalism. Realists hold that the aim of science is to pr...

Abstract Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature the apostl...

The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is misguided. There are more or less apt versions of the distinction, each framed ...

This chapter introduces some main issues of the book. First, one motivation underlying normative realism is the desire to vindicate the sense that the world itself objectively unde...

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic?How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking ...