Автор:

Devitt M.

Место издания:

Cambridge, Mass.

Издатель:

Blackwell

Дата издания:

1991

Объём:

xii, 327 p.

Сведения о содержании:

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 Proposals: what is realism?; what is truth?; what has truth to do with realism?; why be a commonsense realist?; why do we need truth?; why be a scientific realist?. Part 3 Polemics: Van Fraasen against scientific realism; Kuhn, Feyerabend and radical philosophers of science; Davidsonians agianst reference; Rorty's mirrorless world; the renegade Putnam; constructivism and independence; Dummett's anti-realism. Part 4 Conclusions. Appendix: list of named maxims and doctrines

Язык текста:

Английский