Semantic challenges to realism : Dummett and Putnam / / Mark Quentin Gardiner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456532303321
• Autore: Gardiner Mark Q (Mark Quentin), <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000; ©2000
• ISBN: 1-4426-7974-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Collana: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Disciplina: 149/.2
• Soggetti: Realism; Semantics (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Dummett's Semantic Anti-Realism -- 1. Dummett's Constraints - Meaning and Metaphysics -- 2. Dummett's Critique of Semantic Realism -- 3. Responses to the Negative Program -- 4. Responses to the Positive Program -- PART II. Putnam's Internal Realism -- 5. Portraits: Metaphysical and Internal Realisms -- 6. The Model-Theoretic Argument -- 7. Brains in Vats -- 8. The Argument from Equivalence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anti-realism entered the philosophical scene some twenty years ago, and has since become a widely accepted view. But although many philosophers espouse anti-realism, the only sustained arguments for the position are due to Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. Much discussion of their views has appeared in the journals, especially concerning some of Putnam's pithy and memorable expositions, like the 'Brain in the Vat'; however, this is the first book to provide a thorough examination and rebuttal of their arguments.Dummett's and Putnam's arguments are long, complex, and often technical. They have been developed over time, often in response to criticisms of earlier formulations or to the parallel but independent research of others, and accordingly, each of their premises gives rise to a host of issues, ; questions, and concerns. Mark Gardiner guides us through this difficult terrain, discussing the abundant literature on the subject along the way. With its compelling argument and accessible style, this thorough and authoritative study will provide an important contribution to the realism/anti-realism debate.

Operation gatekeeper and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : the war on illegals and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / / Joseph Nevins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791121003321
• Autore: Nevins Joseph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• ISBN: 1-135-15922-X; 1-135-15923-8; 1-282-63976-5; 9786612639760; 0-203-85773-9
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 363.28/50973
• Soggetti: Noncitizens - Government policy - United States; Border patrols - Mexican-American Border Region; Illegal immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- 1. On gate-keeping and boundary-making -- 2. Nation building in the borderlands : constructing the U.S.-Mexico boundary -- 3. Generating difference in San Diego-Tijuana -- 4. Sharpening the divide : from border to boundary -- 5. Producing the crisis: the emergence of Operation Gatekeeper -- 6. The ideological roots of the illegal as threat and the boundary as protector -- 7. The effects and significance of the bounding of the United States -- 8. Security in an age of global apartheid -- Appendix A. The U.S.-Mexican borderland in Southern California (map) -- Appendix B. Mexico and the ; U.S.-Mexico borderlands (map) -- Appendix C. The territorial expansion of the United States (map) -- Appendix D. The remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary (map) -- Appendix E. Chronology of selected U.S. immigration- and boundary-related legislation and developments -- Appendix F. Change in n umber of border agents nationally, FYs 1925-2009 (chart) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to date, but as a "case" of increasing economic integration and liberalization along with growing immigration control, the US. / Mexico Border and its history is put in a wider global context of similar development s elsewhere--Product description.