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Author | : G. Forrai |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401728682 |
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1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The purpose of the book is to develop internal realism, the metaphysical-episte mological doctrine initiated by Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History, "Introduction", Many Faces). In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme. I shall use the notion in a somewhat idiosyncratic way, which, however, has some affinities with the ways the notion has been used during its history. So I shall start by sketching the history of the notion. This will provide some background, and it will also give opportunity to raise some of the most important problems I will have to solve in the later chapters. The story starts with Kant. Kant thought that the world as we know it, the world of tables, chairs and hippopotami, is constituted in part by the human mind. His cen tral argument relied on an analysis of space and time, and presupposed his famous doctrine that knowledge cannot extend beyond all possible experience. It is a central property of experience - he claimed - that it is structured spatially and temporally. However, for various reasons, space and time cannot be features of the world, as it is independently of our experience. So he concluded that they must be the forms of human sensibility, i. e. necessary ingredients of the way things appear to our senses.
Author | : Gábor Forrai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Realism |
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Author | : Forrai Gábor |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Edward James Weber Blatnick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Realism |
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Download Metaphysical Realism Versus Internal Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter J. McCormick |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262133203 |
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Starmaking brings together a cluster of work published over the past 35 years by Nelson Goodman and two Harvard colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism -- issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology. The title alludes to Goodman's famous defense of the claim that because all true representations of stars and other objects are human creations, it follows that in an important sense the stars themselves are made by us. More generally, the argument moves from the fact that our right representations are constructed by us to the claim that the world itself is similarly constructed. Starmaking addresses the question of whether this seeming paradox can be turned into a serious philosophical view. Goodman and Putnam are sympathetic; Scheffler is the critic. Although many others continue to write about pluralism, relativism, and constructionalism, Starmaking brings together the protagonists in the debate since its beginnings and follows closely its still developing form and substance, focusing sharply on Goodman's claim that "we make versions, and right versions make worlds."
Author | : Brett M. Bevers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Completeness theorem |
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Author | : Michael Buchholtz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Download A Refutation of Internal Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Daniel Joshua Feiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : KSKSKS |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Chhanda Gupta |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780742513877 |
Download Realism Versus Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Realism versus Realism defends the metaphysics of 'Internal Realism, ' a view authored by Hilary Putnam, and seeks to build on its basis an immanent realistic position to resolve two conflicts: the conflict between realism and some forms of anti-realism, especially relativism which involves constructivism and subjectivism; and also between two forms of realism itself, namely transcendent and immanent. Contra transcendent realism, author Chhanda Gupta rejects the absolute view of realities that (a) transcend our concept forming powers, (b) transcend our cognitive abilities, and (c) are said to have features by themselves, not as things appear to us. Contra relativism of the anti-realist stripe, Gupta defends conceptual relativity without letting it drift towards constructivism and subjectivism. This general theory of realism minus absolutism, and relativism minus subjectivism and constructivism, may be seen to have a relevance for our moral and social image of the world by showing how pluralism can avoid the ills of absolutism without ushering in intellectual and moral anarchy.