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Defending Realism : Ontological and Epistemological Investigations /

The essays collected in this volume explore the fundamental issues of philosophical realism, including metaphysical realism: Do things exist and have properties independently of being objects of thought or perception? epistemological realism: Is it possible to know any part of reality in and of itse...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bonino, Guido, Jesson, Greg, Cumpa, Javier
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; München ; Boston : DE GRUYTER, 2014.
Colección:Eide.
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  • Table of Contents; Foreword; ONTOLOGY; Two Arguments against Antirealism in Relation to Artefact Kinds; Realism, Tense, and Context Sensitivity; Proof of the Existence of Universals-from a Fallibilist; Methodological Cartesianism; The Transparency Objection against Modal Anti-Realism and the Paradox of Conceivability; Temporal Realism and the R-Theory; Was Frege a Realist? And, if so, in What Sense?; Is Exemplification Absurd? A Note on Lowe's Criticism; EPISTEMOLOGY; Why Realism Needs Ontology; The Impossibility of Philosophical Skepticism.
  • Metaphysical Realism and Castañeda's Minimal Transcendental RealismRealism and Intentionality; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; Defending Deployment Realism against Alleged Counterexamples; Fiction in Science? Exploring the Reality of Theoretical Entities; Does Bell's Theorem Imply Metaphysical Realism?; PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE; Semantic Antirealism: Last Gasp; The Reality of Linguistic Norms or Linguistic Rules Rule; HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; On Russell's Robust Sense of Reality; Austrian Logical Realism? Brentano on States of Affairs; PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE.