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Anti-Representationalism, Realism, and Anti-Realism
ARTL rejects metaphysical realism (MR): it sees Representationalism as integral to this idea, and since Representationalism is incoherent, so is MR....
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Anti-luminosity and anti-realism in metaethics
This paper begins by applying a version of Timothy Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to normative properties. This argument suggests that there...
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Mathematical Realism and Anti-Realism
Having presented famous attempts at reestablishing mathematics on firm foundations in the previous chapter—the intense activity among mathematicians...
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Varieties of Semantical Anti-realism
In the preceding chapter I argued that Chomskyan motivations for an internalist theory of meaningMeaningtheory of converge with certain motivations...
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Anti-Realism and Realism About the Past: A Present for Mark Siderits
Nyāya realists drew an important distinction between absence and non-existence. Perished particulars, such as Aristotle, emperor Ashoka, or the...
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The cost of closure: logical realism, anti-exceptionalism, and theoretical equivalence
Philosophers of science often assume that logically equivalent theories are theoretically equivalent. I argue that two theses, anti-exceptionalism...
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The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response
The anti-metaphysical argument against scientific realism (AMA) is the following: (1) Knowledge of unobservable entities implies metaphysical...
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Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation
I defend an inference to the best explanation (IBE) argument for anti-realism about reasons for acting based on the history of intractable...
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Realism and Anti-Realism in Young Carnap
The rejection of metaphysical questions is a constant in Carnap’s thought. The first part of the paper delves into the question of the basic tenets...
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Anti-Realism and Modal-Epistemic Collapse: Reply to Marton
Marton (
2019 ) argues that that it follows from the standard antirealist theory of truth, which states that truth and possible knowledge are...
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One table or two? scientific anti-realism and Husserl’s phenomenology
In this study I argue that Husserl’s phenomenology is compatible with a realistic interpretation of scientific theories. That said, I distinguish...
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The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged ‘pragmatic turn’ in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by van...
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Pragmatic realism: towards a reconciliation of enactivism and realism
This paper addresses some apparent philosophical tensions between realism and enactivism by means of Charles Peirce’s pragmatism. Enactivism’s...
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Tricky Truths: How Should Alethic Pluralism Accommodate Racial Truths?
Some alethic pluralists maintain that there are two kinds of truths operant in our alethic discourse: a realist kind and an anti-realist kind. In...
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Controversial views and moral realism
It is argued that the emergence of controversial views in discussions of theoretical medicine and bioethics is best explained by the assumption of...
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Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency
This paper connects veritistic teleological epistemology, VTE , with the epistemological dimension of the scientific realism debate. VTE sees our...
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Thought Insertion without Thought
There are a number of conflicting accounts of thought insertion, the delusion that the thoughts of another are inserted into one’s own mind. These...
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On Semantic and Ontic Truth
It is argued that we should distinguish ontic truth––the True––that Frege claimed is sui generis and indefinable, from the semantic concept, for...