At most, then, constructivism stakes out a middle ground between forms of realism that are committed to mind-independent normative truths and forms of antirealism that deny there are any normative truths.
Metaphysically, realism is committed to the mind-independent existence of the world investigated by the sciences.
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In its most radical form, proposed by Descartes and consequently called Cartesianism, dualism is committed to the view that mind constitutes a fundamentally different substance, one whose functioning cannot be entirely explained by reference to physical phenomena alone.
While he has committed to keeping an open mind about revisions to securities and accounting laws, he has also testified that many Democratic proposals are not necessary and could have unintended and unfortunate consequences.
The book was highly praised by critics; Irving Howe said Fox's prose was, "sentence by lapidary sentence... the realisation of a mind committed to the hardness of its own truth" and placed her in the tradition of American short novels "exemplified by Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts and Seize the Day ".
Whilst historians are committed to the view that "mind exists", natural scientists are similarly committed to the view that "matter exists".
Historians are thus committed to the view that "mind exists" in the very specific sense that reality, when viewed from an historical perspective, comprises actions and is to be explained rationally rather than causally.
The "it from bit" approach is particularly appealing to Chalmers (as a philosopher of mind committed to qualia being intrinsic, non-reducible properties) because it allows for a simple unification: we need intrinsic properties to make sense of conscious experience, and we need intrinsic properties to ground the informational states that make up the world's physics.
If you're truly committed to something, in your mind, it's as though you've already succeeded.
