...: Oxford University Press. Tennant, Neil. 1987 . Anti-Realism and Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. BOOK REVLEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000) THE TAMING OF THE TRUE. By NEILTENNANT. Oxford: Oxford University Press...

... already shown that you have something, knowledge of which could constrain rational credence” ( Lewis 1994, 484 ). I just paraphrased Lewis's famous objection to anti-Humean conceptions of objective chance, because my objection to realism is exactly analogous. Ironic, then, that the problem...

... and anti-Realism have, mistakenly, led many to think Carnap himself endorsed these views. She argues that the central dispute between Quine and Carnap concerns analyticity and that if—unlike Quine, but like most philosophers today—we recognize some distinction roughly equivalent to the analytic/synthetic...

..., Sainsbury, Blackburn, and, twice, Williamson), (3) Ethics, (4) Truth, and (5) Response-Dependence and Cognitive Command. The oldest essay in the collection is “Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism,” in sec- tion 1, Wright’s 1987 Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture in Oxford. This essay, as well...

... of the discourse is constrained by and which it serves to communicate, the very claim that a discourse is expressive will presuppose an underpin- ning in facts about aspects of the characteristic attitudinal psychology of its participants. But facts of that genre are just what metaphysical anti-realism about...

... at least in showing the untenability of views like Gibbards and Rorty’s,views according to which noncognitivism or anti- realism is perfectly psychologically compatible with commitment. Still, there then remains room for more debunking nonrealist views, views that hold that there are no true...

... in effect the other com- ponents of Bayes’s theorem-the other likelihoods and the priors. That information, of course, requires a detailed look at the substantive facts of social research. Trout explicitly eschews taking on social constructivist versions of anti- realism. But there are plenty...

... of condi- tional analyses, what he sees as the attending question of realism versus anti- realism, the dispositional/categorical distinction, the relationship between a disposition and its categorical base, laws of nature, and the threat of over- determination stemming from the causal efficacy...

...John Koethe SKETCHES OF LANDSCAPES: PHILOSOPHY BY EXAMPLE. By Avrum Stroll. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998. Pp. Xiv, 282. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVLEWS Tennant, Neil. 1987. Anti-Realism and Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press...

... at the substantive facts of social research. Trout explicitly eschews taking on social constructivist versions of anti- realism. But there are plenty of such accounts around about the social sciences that claim to show that, despite all the trappings of standard sta- tistical methods, social research...

... of their pervasiveness. In Dispositions, Stephen Mumford confronts the toughest and most impor- tant metaphysical issues about dispositions. He tackles the viability of condi- tional analyses, what he sees as the attending question of realism versus anti- realism, the dispositional/categorical distinction...

... to contend with what he has to say. Where does this leave us? According to Hazlett, with a form of anti-realism about epistemic value, as suggested already at the outset. More specifically, Hazlett doesn't deny that there are epistemic values; he simply thinks that the appropriate attitude toward...

.... Mohr, Richard D. 2005. God and Forms in Plato. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides. xxv + 279 pp. Moran, Dermot. 2005. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity. xiii + 297 pp. Norris, Christopher. 2005 [2002]. Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence...

... and predicate. These themes are discussed by Tadeusz Szubka in “Strawson and anti-realism,” by Arindam Chakrabarti in “Experience, concept-possession and knowledge of language,” by Wenceslao J. Gonzales in “P. F. Strawson’s modest empiricism, and by Chung M. Tse in “Strawson’smetaphysical theory...

... attention to many other topics, arguing for theses concerning the role of sortals in demonstrative expressions, Fregean senses of demonstratives, joint attention, uses of demonstratives anchored to their referents by memory, anti-realism, indeterminacy and inscrutability in reference...

...- nell. Lanham: University Press of America, 2000. Pp. ix, 236. Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin. By Peter Tracey Connor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 198. Global Anti-Realism: A Metaphilosophical Inquiry. By Andrew Joseph Cortens. Boulder: Westview...

...Gerald Doppelt RELATIVISM AND REALITY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION, SCIENTIFIC REALISM: HOW SCIENCE TRACKS TRUTH. By Robert Kirk. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp ix, 180.; By Stathis Psillos. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp xiii, 300. Cornell University 2002 BOOK...

...R. Lanier Anderson Allais Lucy , Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and His Realism . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . vii + 329 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 There is no doctrine more central to Kant's philosophy, nor one more confusing in its fundamental...

... to be fundamentally different. Zahar attributes to Poincaré a structural realist view of physics and a quasi-Kantian constructivist view of mathematics. It s not entirely clear, though, why the considerations adduced in favor of structural realism in phys- ics can t be carried over to the case of mathematics...

...- tionalism. 250 CRITICAL NOTICE OF MORAN, AUTHORITY AND ESTRANGEMENT The further chapters will be considered in some detail later, so here I will just state their content briefly. Chapter 2 pursues the argument between realism and idealism in the context...