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Author:   Tim Button (St. John's College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.424kg
ISBN:  

9780198744122

ISBN 10:   0198744129
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   04 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A External realism 1: The picture of external realism 2: The model-theoretic arguments 3: Attempts to constrain reference 4: The just-more-theory manoeuvre 5: Empiricism and empirical content 6: Sceptical veils of various fabrics 7: From Cartesian to Kantian angst B The tenacity of Cartesian angst 8: How the serpent entered Eden 9: Nonrealism 10: Natural realism 11: Justificationism C Dissecting brains in vats 12: Putnam's brain-in-vat argument 13: The resilience of the brain-in-vat argument 14: Davidson's Cogito 15: Vat variations 16: Mitigated aporia D Realism within limits 17: Semantic externalism 18: Conceptual relativism 19: Conceptual cosmopolitanism Appendices I: Model theory primer II: Fitch-style reasoning Bibliography Index

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This book is exceedingly excellent, weaving together scholarship and philosophical thought of the highest quality; reading and thinking carefully about it will undoubtedly prove fruitful for anyone interested in such matters. I am really confident that it will structure the debate about realism for years to come. Nathan Wildman, Zeitschrift fur philosophische Forschung The clear, insightful, but rather innocent, analysis of Putnam's views on internal and external realism is suddenly turned into a subtle and subversive critique of fashionable metametaphysical positions. Lieven Decock, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Tim Button completed his PhD in Cambridge. From 2010 to 2012 he was a research fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 2012, he was appointed to the position of University Lecturer at Cambridge, where he remains a fellow of St John's. He has also recently been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas Austin, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

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