Overview
This book explains why anti-realism is so popular with philosophers of science by showing that many contemporary philosophers of science and language, who define themselves as empiricists, in fact have evolved into linguistic idealists.
Full Product Details
Author: Michele Marsonet
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.254kg
ISBN: 9780791424766
ISBN 10: 0791424766
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 01 July 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This book is refreshingly honest, clear, and persuasive. It promises to transform the terms of the current debate between realism and anti-realism, and to reestablish some form of naturalism and, in the process, some form of sanity to the current practice of philosophy of science. It represents a welcome and much discussed addition to the growing body of literature documenting the onset of a dramatic reaction against the excesses of anti-realism and the linguistic turn on the part of mainstream analytic philosophers of science."" --R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities"
This book is refreshingly honest, clear, and persuasive. It promises to transform the terms of the current debate between realism and anti-realism, and to reestablish some form of naturalism and, in the process, some form of sanity to the current practice of philosophy of science. It represents a welcome and much discussed addition to the growing body of literature documenting the onset of a dramatic reaction against the excesses of anti-realism and the linguistic turn on the part of mainstream analytic philosophers of science. --R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities
""This book is refreshingly honest, clear, and persuasive. It promises to transform the terms of the current debate between realism and anti-realism, and to reestablish some form of naturalism and, in the process, some form of sanity to the current practice of philosophy of science. It represents a welcome and much discussed addition to the growing body of literature documenting the onset of a dramatic reaction against the excesses of anti-realism and the linguistic turn on the part of mainstream analytic philosophers of science."" --R. Lucas, Jr., National Endowment for the Humanities
Author Information
Michele Marsonet is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy at the University of Genoa, Italy.
