Semantic Challenges to Realism Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2000

Although many philosophers espouse anti-realism, the only sustained arguments for the position are due to Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. Gardiner's unpretentious style and lucid organization make sense of Dummett's

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 1989

"An authoritative account of the semantic conception of theories by one of its chief developers. Suppe has always seen the semantic conception as providing a way of moving beyond empiricist

• Publisher : MIT Press
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• Release Date : 21 August 2009

A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 01 January 2020

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 18 December 2014

Michael Dummett's approach to the metaphysical issue of realism through the philosophy of language, his challenge to realism, and his philosophy of language itself are central topics in contemporary analytic

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each,

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 27 June 2007

This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore, drawing on the work of Aristotle, evolutionary biology and

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 17 July 2018

This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 June 2018

Moral rationalism takes human reason and human rationality to be the key elements in an explanation of the nature of morality, moral judgment, and moral knowledge. This volume explores the

• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
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• Release Date : 01 January 2003

Provides a succinct philosophical introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit for non-specialists and students, focusing on Hegel's unique and insightful theory of knowledge and its relations to 20th-century epistemology.