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Autore: | Gardiner Mark Q (Mark Quentin), <1963-> |
Titolo: | Semantic challenges to realism : Dummett and Putnam / / Mark Quentin Gardiner |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000 |
©2000 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina: | 149/.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Realism |
Semantics (Philosophy) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Livres numeriques. |
e-books. | |
Electronic books. | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Semantic challenges to realism |
ISBN: | 1-4426-7974-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780657803321 |
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