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Title Defending Realism : Ontological and Epistemological Investigations / edited by Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson, Javier Cumpa
Published Berlin ; München ; Boston : DE GRUYTER, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Eide ; v. 7
Eide.
Contents Table of Contents; Foreword; ONTOLOGY; Two Arguments against Antirealism in Relation to Artefact Kinds; Realism, Tense, and Context Sensitivity; Proof of the Existence of Universals-from a Fallibilist; Methodological Cartesianism; The Transparency Objection against Modal Anti-Realism and the Paradox of Conceivability; Temporal Realism and the R-Theory; Was Frege a Realist? And, if so, in What Sense?; Is Exemplification Absurd? A Note on Lowe's Criticism; EPISTEMOLOGY; Why Realism Needs Ontology; The Impossibility of Philosophical Skepticism
Metaphysical Realism and Castañeda's Minimal Transcendental RealismRealism and Intentionality; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; Defending Deployment Realism against Alleged Counterexamples; Fiction in Science? Exploring the Reality of Theoretical Entities; Does Bell's Theorem Imply Metaphysical Realism?; PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE; Semantic Antirealism: Last Gasp; The Reality of Linguistic Norms or Linguistic Rules Rule; HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; On Russell's Robust Sense of Reality; Austrian Logical Realism? Brentano on States of Affairs; PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE
Summary The essays collected in this volume explore the fundamental issues of philosophical realism, including metaphysical realism: Do things exist and have properties independently of being objects of thought or perception? epistemological realism: Is it possible to know any part of reality in and of itself? and ontological realism: Are there universals? This book provides a welcome resource for philosophers and for advanced philosophy students
Analysis Realism
idealism
ontology
Subject Realism.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction.
Realism
Form Electronic book
Author Bonino, Guido
Jesson, Greg
Cumpa, Javier
ISBN 9781614516651
1614516650