Global anti-realism : a metaphilosophical inquiry
Andrew Joseph Cortens (Author)
"Few philosophical debates have generated as much interest - or as much confusion - over the last several decades as those over realism and anti-realism. In Global Anti-Realism, Andrew Cortens imposes some much needed order on the field by arguing that realist/anti-realist debates of all kinds display a common structure. While realists think of themselves as believing the claims expressed by a certain range of sentences, anti-realists refuse to accept the sentences as interpreted by their opponents. They either accept the realist interpretation while rejecting the relevant sentences, or endorse the sentences under some alternative interpretation." "Cortens extends this simple model for understanding so-called "local" disputes over realism in areas like morality, causality, and mathematics in order to formulate a clear conception of a "global" dispute over realism and anti-realism."--Jacket
x, 174 pages ; 23 cm
9780813391304, 081339130X
42296737
1. Anti-Realism: Local And Global
2. Objects
3. Anti-Realism about Reference and Global Anti-Realism
4. Meaning, Content, and Matters of Fact
5. Retrospect and Prospects