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...Allan Hazlett Barry Taylor, Models, Truth, and Realism . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 185 pp. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 Lewis, David. 1999a . “Putnam's Paradox.” In Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , 56 -77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...David Liebesman Hirsch Eli , Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xvi + 261 pp . © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 References Hawthorne John . 2009 . “ Superficialism in Ontology .” In Metametaphysics...

...Wenjin Liu [email protected] Gerson Lloyd P. , Plato’s Moral Realism . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . x + 264 pp. © 2025 by Cornell University 2025 Does ethics have a metaphysical foundation? This question, which has been extensively explored...

...Jarrett Leplin STUDIES IN SCIENTIFIC REALISM. By André Kukla. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 176. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS involving a in its first place (a set of subjectwise concurring tropes), the set of all tropes involving...

...Harold Kincaid MEASURING THE INTENTIONAL WORLD: REALISM, NATURALISM, AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCLENCES. By J. D. Trout. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 287. Cornell University 2000 Cohen, Jacob. 1994 . “The Earth is Round (p < .05).” American...

...Philip Kitcher Cornell University 2001 7‘hp Pliilosophzcal &view, Vol. 110, No. 2 (April 2001) Real Realism: The Galilean Strategy Philip Kitcher 1. There are almost as many versions...

...Noa Shein Renz Ursula , The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xiii + 312 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 The Explainability of Experience: Realism...

...Connie S. Rosati Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence . Oxford: Clarendon, 2003. v + 322 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003...

...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 the problem and find them all wanting. This suggests a return to a kind of Goodmanian view that the world is a structureless mess onto which we project our own categorizations, not something with categories already built in. © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 metaphysical realism anti-realism...

...David Phillips COMMITMENT, VALUE, AND MORAL REALISM. By Marcel S. Lieberman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 210. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS to contemporary thought. In presuming that we can directly indulge in the rational...

...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...

... in no way detract from the overall value of what has been accomplished here. Chakrabarti announces early in the book that he takes realism about other subjectivities to be linked to realism about the self, quoting Peter Strawson’s “If only mine then not even mine” (5). But the defense of this linkage...

... something informative about the basic orientation and significance of each paper. The device I use for that purpose is to pull out two large themes running through Putnam's thought. The first is realism, a topic on which Putnam has generated great excitement, controversy, and confusion. As Frederick...

...: there is a widespread view that adopting, say, the Everett interpretation still leaves significant ontological questions undecided, and conversely, a given answer to those questions might answer them for a dynamical-collapse theory too. Wave function realism has become a leading contender for the metaphysics...

... to happen, race would become real, because an ordinary concept of race would align with reality. But to make this change would seem to first require the adoption of social racial realism, which Glasgow tells us is currently false. This seems like a problem for Glasgow, but not for antirealist...

...: 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...

... (April 2004) Crispin Wright, Saving the Differences: Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectiv- ity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 549. Here, in broadest outline, is Crispin Wright’s general view on the nature of local realism/antirealism disputes (disputes concerning...

... : Oxford University Press . McGrath Sarah . 2019 . Moral Knowledge . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Williamson Timothy . 2023 . “ Moral Anti-exceptionalism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism , edited by Paul Bloomfield and David Copp, 554–76. Oxford : Oxford...

... that defined the former. In their place Gutting defends a nonmetaphysical, “hum- drum” realism in the domains of both common sense and science. In his dis- cussion of Rorty, this turns on the argument that we have no choice but to adopt the realist stance that we are in cognitive contact with objects...