Realism and Truth - Michael Devitt
In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-re… Celý popis ↓
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Realism and Truth - Michael Devitt
In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth.
The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the determinati
Parametre
- Autor
- Michael Devitt
- Jazyk
- anglické
- Počet strán
- 340
- Rok vydania
- 1997
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