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Author:   Michael Devitt (City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.561kg
ISBN:  

9780199576975

ISBN 10:   0199576971
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   07 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"METAPHYSICS 1: ""Ostrich Nominalism"" or ""Mirage Realism""? Postscript to ""'Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?"" 2: Aberrations of the Realism Debate Postscript to ""Aberrations of the Realism Debate"" 3: Underdetermination and Commonsense Realism 4: Scientific Realism Postscript to ""Scientific Realism"" 5: Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics Postscript to ""Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics"" 6: Global Response Dependency and Worldmaking 7: The Metaphysics of Nonfactualism 8: The Metaphysics of Truth 9: Moral Realism: A Naturalistic Perspective 10: Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms 11: Resurrecting Biological Essentialism EPISTEMOLOGY 12: Naturalism and the A Priori 13: No Place for the A Priori 14: Intuitions 15: On Determining What There Isn't"

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Through these articles, Devitt has consistently done more than perhaps anyone else to clarify what is at issue generally in the realism debates and to provide the strongest possible defences of realism in a number of different domains. Both realists and antirealists owe him a lot for this important contribution. Devitt's writing also always moves heavyweight intellectual objects in a way that is always clear, accessible, and devoid of any unnecessary jargon or technicalities. I hope that, like his realist views, his style too will continue to influence young philosophers. --Mind

Through these articles, Devitt has consistently done more than perhaps anyone else to clarify what is at issue generally in the realism debates and to provide the strongest possible defences of realism in a number of different domains. Both realists and antirealists owe him a lot for this important contribution. Devitt's writing also always moves heavyweight intellectual objects in a way that is always clear, accessible, and devoid of any unnecessary jargon or technicalities. I hope that, like his realist views, his style too will continue to influence young philosophers. Jussi Suikkanen, Mind

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Michael Devitt (PhD Harvard, BA Sydney) is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He taught at the University of Sydney from 1971 until 1987 and the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1999. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language and mind, and in issues of realism.

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