Realism and Antirealism /

Realism and Antirealism / / ed. by William P. Alston.

Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. Realism-the seemingly commonsensical view that all or most of what we encounter in the world exists and is what it is independently of human thought-has been vigorously denied by such prominent intellect...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alston, William P.,
Anderson, David Leech,
Clark, Kelly James,
Colvert, Gavin T.,
Cortens, Andrew,
Hiskes, Anne L.,
Howard-Snyder, Frances,
Lynch, Michael P.,
McLeod, Mark S.,
Miller, Caleb,
Murray, Michael J.,
Rolnick, Philip A.,
Smit, Laura A.,
Tollefsen, Christopher,
Woudenberg, Rene van,
HerausgeberIn:
Alston, William P.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. BASIC ISSUES FOR REALISM AND ANTIREALISM
  • 1. Realism, Antirealism, and Common Sense
  • 2. Realism and Irrealism: A Dialogue
  • 3. Dividing the World into Objects
  • 4. Pluralism, Metaphysical Realism, and Ultimate Reality
  • 5. The God's I Point of View
  • 6. What Metaphysical Realism Is Not
  • II. TRUTH AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM
  • 7· On the Metaphysical Implications of Alethic Realism
  • 8. Why God Is Not a Semantic Realist
  • III. REALISM AND EPISTEMOLOGY
  • 9. Cooperative, Coordinative, and Coercive Epistemologies
  • 10. "In Your Light, We See Light": The Continuing Viability of a Christocentric Epistemology
  • IV. DEPARTMENTAL REALISMS AND ANTIREALISMS
  • A. Religion
  • 11. Thomism with a Realist Face: A Response to Hilary Putnam
  • 12. Realist Reference to God: Analogy or Univocity?
  • B. Science and Religion
  • 13. Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricist Philosophy of Science and 2II Religious Belief: Prospects for a Unified Epistemology
  • C. Literature and Morality
  • 14. Truth in Fiction: The Whole Story
  • 15. Fiction as a Kind of Philosophy
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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