... metaphysical realism,” and instead proposes a “sophisticated metaphysical realism” based on an acceptance of ontological plurality: “the same state of affairs can sometimes admit of descriptions that have, taken at face value, incompatible ‘ontologies,’ in the familiar Quinian sense” (506). Dummett provides...

.... For this reason I will often use ‘realism’ to denote Sider's particular view for convenience. As I said, the problem concerns the value-theoretic claim. Grant the metaphysical claim: suppose that there is a primitive property of naturalness that some sets have and others lack. Suppose in particular that the set...

..., it favors what might be called a divine epistemology over a human one. An important function of the divine epistemology for this kind of interpretation is securing the coveted objectivity and realism for Spinoza's metaphysics. Commentators, thus, have been reluctant to place the human mind at the center...

... metaphysical realism with the appli- cability of the law of excluded middle.) In fact, there is not even a fact of the matter as to whether “patterns” (as distinct from “places” in these patterns) exist or not as entities. Resnik thus exempts himself from the requirement of providing “identity...

... their assertions about unobservables to be true, or approximately so (epistemic realism); and (3) What makes scientific theories true or false is the mind-independent natural-kind structure of reality (metaphysical realism). In the first three chapters, Psillos provides a critical analysis of various instru...

... of Mind . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hale, B., and C. Wright. 1997 . “Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism.” In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language , ed. C. Wright and B. Hale, 427 -57. Oxford: Blackwell. Henkin, L. 1949 . “The Completeness of the First-Order...

... a detailed and sympathetic taxonomy of the alternatives to wave function realism that have been developed, all of which she regards as entirely viable. (Chapter 2 of the book could profitably be used as introductory reading for a general graduate course on quantum metaphysics.) For Ney, the question of which...

..., metaphysical, physical) express different types of norms. Thomasson presents the advantages of her normativist view in chapters 6–8. From an ontological point of view, the account is compatible with a deflationary form of realism that Thomasson dubs “simple realism.” The existence of metaphysical...

... Hand. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001. Pp. mi, 191. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism. The Aquinas Lecture, 2001. By William P. Alston. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2001. Pp. 61. Machiavelli and Us. By Louis Althusser. Ed. Francois Matheron. Trans. Gregory...

... such a denial.2 But for the time being we may focus our attention on antirealist views that, whether for specifi- cally metaphysical or semantic motives, do reject realism’s metaphysi- cal claim. 207 CRISPIN WRIGHT 3...

...Mark Siderits Book titles that are intriguing are often uninformative, but the title of this richly rewarding book is an exception. Arindam Chakrabarti’s thesis is that realism about external objects, realism about selves (as subjects of experience), and realism about the existence of other...

...Michael Glanzberg THE TAMING OF THE TRUE. By Neil Tennant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 465. Cornell University 2000 Dummett, Michael. 1991 . The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ____. 1993 . The Seas Of Language. Oxford...

..., Allais's interpretation brings Kantian idealism uncomfortably close to that Leibnizian picture. For her, intuition involves the presence of its object in acquaintance (156–60). Indeed, this is what explains the realism in manifest realism, underwriting the basic metaphysics of Allais's interpretation...

... illustrates the underdetermination of ontology by the sciences by discussing the metaphysics of dispositions, and in chapter 5, he turns to debates concerning structural realism. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss different kinds of epistemological uncertainty. Chapter 6 discusses uncertainty with regard to the nature...

... little more unity than is provided by the fact that the papers all engage with aspects of Lewis’s metaphysics. The book is divided into an introductory chapter and three parts: “Modal Realism,” “Physicalism, Causation and Conditionals,” and “Reduction of Mind.” The first chapter of the collection...

... racial realism , according to which races are appearance-based groups that are not scientifically valid but are real nevertheless, and (2) antirealist reconstructionism according to which racialized groups are real, but “races” are not. I will discuss each view in turn, starting with Haslanger’s...

..., Naturalism in Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 254. This book marks a substantial shift from Maddy’s position in Realism in Mathe- matics.1 The earlier work devoted considerable attention to the justification of mathematics: why it is reasonable...

... in section 2: antirealism thrives on supposing that there is an enormous gulf between the real- ist’s claims and everyday ideas and judgments, on portraying realists as importing unnecessary metaphysics. If realism is to emerge from the motivating ideas I’ve ascribed to it, then we need to scrutinize...

...: Polity. xix + 348 pp. Ahmed, Arif. 2007. Saul Kripke. Continuum Contemporary American Thinkers. London: Continuum. viii + 182 pp. Almer,´ Alexander. 2007. Naturalising Intentionality: Inquiries into Realism and Relativism...

...Dana Goswick Thomasson Amie , Ontology Made Easy . New York: Oxford University Press , 2015 . xiii + 345 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 In Ontology Made Easy , Amie Thomasson's aim is to “develop an alternative way of looking at that particular corner of metaphysics...