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Essays in Quasi-Realism
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This debate has centred on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the `quasi-realist' dramatizes the difficulty of conducting these debates. Typically philosophers thinking of themselves as realists will believe that they alone can give a proper or literal account of some of our attachments-to truth, to facts, to the independent world, to knowledge, and to certainty. The quasi-realist challenge, developed by Blackburn in this volume, is that we can have those attachments without any metaphysic that deserves calling realism, so that the metaphysical picture that goes with our practices is quite idle. The cases treated here include the theories of value and of knowledge, modality, probability, causation, intentionality and rule-following, and explanation.
A substantial new introduction has been added, drawing together some of the central themes.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
1993-06-17
Publication Date:
1993-05-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0195080416
ISBN13:
9780195080414
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Weight:
596 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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