Semantic challenges to realism
Subtitle: Dummett and Putnam
By: Mark Quentin Gardiner.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Dummett, Michael A. E.; Putnam, Hilary.; Realism.; Semantics (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: DUMMETT'S SEMANTIC ANTI-REALISM; title: I Dummett's Constraints - Meaning and Metaphysics 9; title: 2 Dummett's Critique of Semantic Realism 20; title: The Acquisition Argument 25; title: The Manifestation Argument 31; title: 3 Responses to the Negative Program 54; title: Decidability 56; title: Decidability and Temporality 58; title: Decidability and Persons 64; title: Decidability and Capacities 68; title: Are There Any Undecidable Sentences? 70; title: Inaccessible Regions 71; title: Surveying Infinite Totalites 75; title: Use of Subjunctive Conditionals 79; title: Other Sources of Undecidability? 96; title: 4 Responses to the Positive Program 106; title: Does an Anti-Realist Semantics Harmonize with the Constraints; title: on Understanding? 106; title: Realist Routes to Manifestation 111; title: The Naivety of Both Realist and Anti-Realist Semantics 120; title: PART II: PUTNAM'S INTERNAL REALISM; title: 5 Portraits: Metaphysical and Internal Realisms 139; title: 6 The ModeThoretic Argument 157; title: Against the : Just More Theory Ploy 164; title: Against the Very Idea of an E pistemically Ideal Theory 173; title: 7 Brains in Vats 183; title: The Argument 183; title: Version 1 184; title: Version 2 185; title: Responses to the Argument 187; title: The Vat Argument and Realism 190; title: 8 The Argument from Equivalence 199; title: Against Verisimilitude 203; title: Against the Existential Claim 205; title: Empirical Equivalence and the Model-TheoreticArgument 209; title: A Second Argument from Equivalence 214; title: Conclusion 219; title: NOTES 225; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY 253; title: INDEX 263.