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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780657803321
• 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); Livres numeriques.; e-books.; 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: PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: DUMMETT'S SEMANTIC ANTI-REALISM -- 1 Dummett's Constraints -- Meaning and Metaphysics -- 2 Dummett's Critique of Semantic Realism -- The Acquisition Argument -- The Manifestation Argument -- 3 Responses to the Negative Program -- Decidability -- Are There Any Undecidable Sentences? -- Other Sources of Undecidability? -- 4 Responses to the Positive Program -- Does an Anti-Realist Semantics Harmonize with the Constraints on Understanding? -- Realist Routes to Manifestation -- The Naivety of Both Realist and Anti-Realist Semantics.; PART II: PUTNAM'S INTERNAL REALISM -- 5 Portraits: Metaphysical and Internal Realisms -- 6 The Model-Theoretic Argument -- Against the ""Just More Theory"" Ploy -- Against the Very Idea of an Epistemically Ideal Theory -- 7 Brains in Vats -- The Argument -- Responses to the Argument -- The Vat Argument and Realism -- 8 The Argument from Equivalence -- Against Verisimilitude -- Against the Existential Claim -- Empirical Equivalence and the Model-Theoretic Argument -- A Second Argument from Equivalence -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ; BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J.; K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 and Putnam's discourse.