Mäki, Uskali; Oinas, Päivi - In: Environment and Planning A 36 (2004) 10, pp. 1755-1776
The paper provides an analysis of the reception of realism in human geography. Gaps are identified between geographers' realism and realism as conceived by philosophers of science. The paper first outlines philosophers' abstract or thin 'CoreRealism' in simple ontological, semantic, and...