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    In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the determination of reference

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    In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the determination of reference

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    Michael Devitt - Realism and Truth

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    In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the determination of reference

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    REALISM “HK TRUTH SECOND EDITION WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR MICHAEL DEVITT Realism and Truth Second Edition with a new afterword MICHAEL DEVITT i | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY t : Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom by Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 1984, 1991 by Michael Devitt Afterword to the Princeton Paperback edition © 1997 by Michael Devitc All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Devitt, Michae!, 1933- i Realism and truth / Michae) Devitt—2nd ed. » cm. i Originally published: cambridge, MA ; Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1984 | Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-01187-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Realism. 2. Truth. 3. Science--Philosephy. I. Tide. B835.D48 1996 149°2-—de20 96-28286 Princeton University Press books are princed on acid-free paper: and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the: Commitee on Preduction Guidelines for Book Longevity of | the Council on Library Resources First Princeton Paperback printing, 1997 Printed in the United States of America 8579108642 hep;//pup.princeton.cdu Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Part I Introduction i Introduction Part II Proposals 2 What its Realism? 3 What is Truth? 4 What has Truth to do with Realism? 5 Why be a Common-Sense Realist? & Why do we Need Truth? 7 Why be a Scientific Realist? Part IHL Polemics 8 Van Fraassen against Scientific Realism 9 Kubn, Feyerabend, and the Radical Philosophers of Science 10 Davidsonians against Reference 11 Rorty’s Mirrorless World 12 The Renegade Putnam 13 Worldmaking 14 Dummett’s Anti-Realism Part IV Conclusions 15 Conclusions vii 135 137 155 180 203 220 235 239 293 295

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