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Semantic challenges to realism : Dummett and Putnam / Mark Quentin Gardiner.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardiner, Mark Q. (Mark Quentin), 1963- author.
- Series:
- Toronto studies in philosophy
- Toronto Studies in Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Realism.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011.
- Dummett, Michael.
- Putnam, Hilary.
- Genre:
- Livres numeriques.
- e-books.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-7974-3
- OCLC:
- 944177597
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