Global Anti-Realism
Subtitle: A Metaphilosophical Inquiry
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780813391304
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy Of Language; Philosophy Of Mind; Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Metaphysics; Realism
Description: "Few philosophical debates have generated as much interest - or as much confusion - over the last several decades as those over realism and anti-realism. In Global Anti-Realism, Andrew Cortens imposes some much needed order on the field by arguing that realist/anti-realist debates of all kinds display a common structure. While realists think of themselves as believing the claims expressed by a certain range of sentences, anti-realists refuse to accept the sentences as interpreted by their opponents.

They either accept the realist interpretation while rejecting the relevant sentences, or endorse the sentences under some alternative interpretation."--BOOK JACKET. "Cortens extends this simple model for understanding so-called "local" disputes over realism in areas like morality, causality, and mathematics in order to formulate a clear conception of a "global" dispute over realism and anti-realism."--BOOK JACKET.