Reality, Representation, and Projection

by John Haldane (Editor), Crispin Wright (Editor)

Overview

This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistemology. The contributors include some of the leading authors in these fields and in several cases their essays constitute definitive statements of their views. In some cases authors write in response to the essays of other contributors, in other cases they proceed independently. Although not primarily historical this collection includes discussions of philosophers from the middle ages to the present day, from Aquinas to Wittgenstein. No one seriously interested in questions about realism, whether as a general philosophical outlook or as a particular position within specific debates, can afford to be without this collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195078787
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/28/1993
Series:	Mind Association Occasional Series
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.34(d)

Table of Contents

	Notes on Contributors	xi
	Introduction	3
Part I	Realism: The Historical and Contemporary Debates
1.	Mind-World Identity Theory and the Anti-Realist Challenge	15
2.	Realism and Anti-Realism in a Historical Context	39
3.	Realism: The Contemporary Debate--W(h)ither Now?	63
4.	Objectivity Refigured: Pragmatism Without Verificationism	85
Part II	Realism and Logic
5.	Anti-Realism, Inference, and the Logical Constants	133
6.	Proof and Truth	165
Part III	Realism and Scepticism
7.	Realism and Scepticism	193
8.	Understanding Scepticism	215
Part IV	Realism, Value, and Secondary Qualities
9.	Objectivity and Moral Realism: On the Significance of the Phenomenology of Moral Experience	235
10.	A Simple View of Colour	257
11.	Colour, Transparency, Mind-Independence	269
12.	What the Non-Cognitivist Helps Us to See the Naturalist Must Help Us to Explain	279
13.	Cognitivism, Naturalism, and Normativity: A Reply to Peter Railton	301
14.	Reply to David Wiggins	315
15.	A Neglected Position?	329
16.	Can There Be a Logic of Attitudes?	337
17.	Realism, Quasi, or Queasy?	365
18.	Postscript	385
	Bibliography	389
	Index	396