Global anti-realism : a metaphilosophical inquiry / Andrew Joseph Cortens.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cortens, Andrew Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Realism.

Physical Description:

x, 174 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Contents:

• 1 Anti-Realism: Local And Global 7
• The Local/Global Distinction 7
• A Proposal: The Anti-Realist as Unbeliever 8
• Objections to the Proposal 16
• Object versus Statemental Anti-Realism 21
• The Road Ahead 27
• 2 Objects 33
• Goals 33
• Some Local Object Anti-Realisms 36
• Perspicuity and Ontological Seriousness 37
• Ontological Seriousness and Believing There Are Ks 41
• Global Ontological Unseriousness 45
• Nihilistic Metaphysics 46
• Reductive Nihilism 51
• Noumenalist and Pluralist Forms of Nihilism 58
• Conclusion: Realism and the God's-Eye Point of View? 69
• 3 Anti-Realism about Reference and Global Anti-Realism 77
• Quine and Anti-Realism about Reference 77
• Indeterminacy of Reference versus Indeterminacy of Translation 80
• Variations on Quinean Themes 82
• Anti-Realism about Reference and Global Anti-Realism: Preliminaries 87
• The Threat of Pragmatic Contradiction 91
• Global Ontological Shifts 95
• Merely Local Ontological Shifts 100
• 4 Meaning, Content, and Matters of Fact 107
• Understanding Anti-Realism about Content 108
• Simple Attacks on the Coherence of Content Anti-Realism 113
• Boghossian on the Coherence of Content Anti-Realism 116
• Is Content Anti-Realism Tantamount to Global Anti-Realism? 128
• 5 Retrospect and Prospects 145
• Retrospect 146
• Directions for Future Inquiry I: Objects 149
• Directions for Future Inquiry II: Truth 152.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081339130X

OCLC:

42296737