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Open AccessPublished: 18 September 2025

How to Be Things with Words: Speech Acts and the Ontological Symmetry Between Realism and Idealism

Euclides Souza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 150–159 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.493

This article challenges the traditional separation between language and ontology by arguing that they are fundamentally co-constitutive. Drawing from Speech Act Theory—particularly in its development by Austin, Searle, and Vanderveken—it demonstrates that language is not merely a vehicle for describing reality, but a generative

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Open AccessPublished: 13 June 2025

Rethinking Death: A Philosophical and Biomedical Model of Ontological Priority

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 95–115 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.501

This study introduces a new conceptual model of death that repositions it as an ontologically primary state—one that occurs before and initiates the biological processes traditionally associated with dying. Challenging the conventional linear sequence of life → dying → death, the paper argues that death should not be defined by

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Open AccessPublished: 3 May 2025

Wahdat-al-Khayāl (Unity of Thought): A Psychologist’s Response to Wahdat-al-Wujūd (Unity of Being) and Wahdat-alShuhūd (Unity of Witnessing)

Waqar Husain

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 84–94 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.511

The quest to comprehend the nature of reality and the essence of selfhood has long animated metaphysical inquiry across civilizations. The current discourse presents the concept of Wahdat-al-Khayāl (Unity of Thought) as the foundational ontology. By critically engaging with classical metaphysical frameworks of Wahdat-al-Wujūd (U

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Open AccessPublished: 25 April 2025

Performative Skepticism: Pseudoscientific Dogmatism Under the Veil of Rhetorical Doubt

André Demambre Bacchi

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 69–83 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.455

This essay explores the concept of "performative skepticism," a rhetorical strategy that mimics the language and principles of scientific skepticism, but is employed to shield beliefs and practices from rigorous empirical scrutiny. Unlike legitimate epistemic skepticism, a foundational component of scientific inquiry, performati

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Open AccessPublished: 25 March 2025

Philosophical Exploration into the Exceptionalities of Giftedness and Disability: Developing Frameworks for Understanding

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 38–55 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.392

This research explores the concept of asynchrony in human development, specifically the imbalance between mental and physical aging in relation to time. It posits that while chronological age progresses uniformly, intellectual development can accelerate, leading to giftedness, or decelerate, resulting in intellectual delays or d

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Open AccessPublished: 25 October 2024

Heidegger’s Philosophical Anthropology and its Application to the Police in the UK: A Realistic Reflection

Robert Adlam

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 55–69 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.247

This paper is written from an ‘insider’ and decades-long practitioner-based set of experiences whilst the author was working as an academic director of studies at the UK Police College, Bramshill. It begins by briefly identifying and characterising the College as a particularly distinct cultural institution. It underlines the fa

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Open AccessPublished: 19 October 2024

Thought-Shaping, Reflection and the Refractive Element

Otto Paans

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 39-54 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.278

Is it possible to think beyond the structuring and directing influences of thought-shaping? Or, phrased differently, how can thought-shaping be genuinely free and creative? My response in this essay is that we must move beyond the idea of thought-shaping as mere awareness or critical reflection. As I show, the notion of reflecti

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Open AccessPublished: 12 October 2024

Sartre’s ‘Freedom’ and Society: Existentialist’s Dilemma in Naturalistic View

Anirban Ghosh, Malabika Chakrabarti

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 13-25 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.203

Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different cause

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Open AccessPublished: 10 October 2024

The Quest for Happiness: Medieval Perspectives for Our Future: Philosophical and Literary-Historical Investigations

Albrecht Classen

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1-12 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.190

Human life makes sense only if the individual can achieve a certain degree of happiness. In order to address this topic in an insightful and effective way, this paper turns to a selection of medieval literary narratives where the focus specifically rests on happiness that an individual might achieve when the circumstances and th

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Open AccessPublished: 28 June 2026

Gadamerian-Wittgensteinian Language Hermeneutics as Theoretical Frameworks and Heuristic Devices for Researching Spirituality

Padraig Mc Bennett

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 103–123 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102325

This philosophical reflection stems from the conduct of a triangulated empirical practical socio-theological doctoral exploration of the Republic of Ireland’s post-Catholic religious landscape and spiritual marketplace as perceived by random samples of young people (n=178; N=22). Contextualised within the broad discourse of reli

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