The limits of realism /

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Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and w...

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The picture of external realism --
The model-theoretic arguments --
Attempts to constrain reference --
The just-more-theory manœvre --
Empiricism and empirical content --
Sceptical veils of various fabrics --
From Cartesian to Kantian angst --
How the serpent entered Eden --
Nonrealism --
Natural realism --
Justificationism --
Putnam's brain-in-vat argument --
The resilence of the brain-in-vat argument --
Davidson's cogito --
Vat variations --
Mitigated aporia --
Semantic externalism --
Conceptual relativism --
Conceptual cosmopolitanism.
1. Verfasser:
Button, Tim
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-874412-9
0-19-175839-6
0-19-165233-4
Schlagworte:
Philosophy of mind.
Realism.
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