Putting metaphysics first
Subtitle: essays on metaphysics and epistemology
By: Michael Devitt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199576975; 9780199280803
Subjects: Metaphysics; Knowledge, Theory of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Metaphysics; title: "Ostrich nominalism"' or "mirage realism"?; title: Postscript to "Ostrich nominalism" or "mirage realism"?; title: Aberrations of the realism debate; title: Postscript to "aberrations of the realism debate"; title: Underdetermination and commonsense realism; title: Scientificrealism; title: Postscript to "scientific realism"; title: Incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics; title: Postscript to "incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics"; title: Global response dependency and worldmaking; title: The metaphysics of nonfactualism; title: The metaphysics of truth; title: Moral realism : a naturalistic perspective; title: Natural kinds and biological realisms; title: Resurrecting biological essentialism; title: Epistemology; title: Naturalism and the a priori; title: No place for the a priori; title: Intuitions; title: On determining what there isn't.