Realism and truth

Blackwell

1991

xii, 327 p.

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

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