03727nam 2200757 450 991078065780332120231206211346.01-4426-7974-310.3138/9781442679740(CKB)2430000000001426(EBL)4671943(SSID)ssj0000377939(PQKBManifestationID)11282094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377939(PQKBWorkID)10354742(PQKB)10819026(CaBNvSL)thg00600671 (DE-B1597)464853(OCoLC)944177597(OCoLC)999378663(DE-B1597)9781442679740(Au-PeEL)EBL4671943(CaPaEBR)ebr11257631(OCoLC)288106319(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/t504w6(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418050(MiAaPQ)EBC4671943(OCoLC)1388206925(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105209(MiAaPQ)EBC3255402(EXLCZ)99243000000000142620160922h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSemantic challenges to realism Dummett and Putnam /Mark Quentin GardinerToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (278 p.)Toronto Studies in PhilosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-4771-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Toronto studies in philosophyRealismSemantics (Philosophy)Livres numeriques.e-books.Electronic books. Realism.Semantics (Philosophy)149/.2Gardiner Mark Q(Mark Quentin),1963-1528346MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780657803321Semantic challenges to realism3771859UNINA