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Putting metaphysics first : essays on metaphysics and epistemology / Michael Devitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Devitt, Michael, 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 346 pages)
- Other Title:
- Essays on metaphysics and epistemology
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Michael Devitt presents a series of essays in which he argues for an uncompromisingly realist view of the external physical world. He goes on to reject moral noncognitivism & antirealist views of truth. He argues against the a priori, & urges that we should approach epistemology & semantics from a metaphysical perspective & not vice versa.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Metaphysics
- "Ostrich nominalism"' or "mirage realism"?
- Postscript to "Ostrich nominalism" or "mirage realism"?
- Aberrations of the realism debate
- Postscript to "aberrations of the realism debate"
- Underdetermination and commonsense realism
- Scientificrealism
- Postscript to "scientific realism"
- Incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics
- Postscript to "incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics"
- Global response dependency and worldmaking
- The metaphysics of nonfactualism
- The metaphysics of truth
- Moral realism : a naturalistic perspective
- Natural kinds and biological realisms
- Resurrecting biological essentialism
- Epistemology
- Naturalism and the a priori
- No place for the a priori
- Intuitions
- On determining what there isn't.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172325-8
- 0-19-928080-0
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