Truth and Realism
Truth and Realism

Author: Patrick Greenough

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780199288885

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Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Realism and Truth
Realism and Truth

Author: Michael Devitt

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997-01-12

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780691011875

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In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.

Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth
Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Author: Richard A. Fumerton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780742512832

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Defending a realism about truth, Fumerton (philosophy, U. of Iowa) argues that the most plausible version of realism is the correspondence theory of truth, and that only by including in one's ontology the critical relation of correspondence between truth bearers and truth makers can one avoid an implausible metaphysics of possibilia in a realist analysis of falsehood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Logic of Being
The Logic of Being

Author: Paul M. Livingston

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9780810135192

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In the Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time, the influential philosopher Paul M. Livingston explores and illuminates truth, time, and their relationship by employing methods from both Continental and analytic philosophy.

Scientific Realism
Scientific Realism

Author: Stathis Psillos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-02

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1134619820

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Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.

Resisting Scientific Realism
Resisting Scientific Realism

Author: K. Brad Wray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1108415210

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Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.

Truth and Objectivity
Truth and Objectivity

Author: Crispin Wright

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0674045386

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Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

Hermeneutic Realism
Hermeneutic Realism

Author: Dimitri Ginev

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3319392891

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This study recapitulates basic developments in the tradition of hermeneutic and phenomenological studies of science. It focuses on the ways in which scientific research is committed to the universe of interpretative phenomena. It treats scientific research by addressing its characteristic hermeneutic situations, and uses the following basic argument in this treatment: By demonstrating that science’s epistemological identity is not to be spelled out in terms of objectivism, mathematical essentialism, representationalism, and foundationalism, one undermines scientism without succumbing scientific research to “procedures of normative-democratic control” that threaten science’s cognitive autonomy. The study shows that in contrast to social constructivism, hermeneutic phenomenology of scientific research makes the case that overcoming scientism does not imply restrictive policies regarding the constitution of scientific objects.

A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism

Author: Anjan Chakravartty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1139468391

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Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very heart of the philosophy of science. Anjan Chakravartty traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising strategies adopted by its proponents in response to the forceful challenges of antirealist sceptics, resulting in a positive proposal for scientific realism today. He examines the core principles of the realist position, and sheds light on topics including the varieties of metaphysical commitment required, and the nature of the conflict between realism and its empiricist rivals. By illuminating the connections between realist interpretations of scientific knowledge and the metaphysical foundations supporting them, his book offers a compelling vision of how realism can provide an internally consistent and coherent account of scientific knowledge.

Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science

Author: Samir Okasha

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0198745583

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What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.