Realism and anti-realism

Intercollegiate Lectures • Logic and Metaphysics • Philosophy B.A. • University of London

José Zalabardo • Autumn 2009

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Recommended Reading

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Brueckner, Anthony. "The Anti-Realist's Master Argument." In Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XVII: The Wittgenstein Legacy, edited by Peter French, Theodor Uehling, Jr. and Howard K. Wettstein, 214-23. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.

Carnap, Rudolf. "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (1950): 20-40.

Davidson, Donald. "A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge." In Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, 137-53. Oxford: Clarendon, 2001.

Dummett, Michael. "Realism." In Truth and Other Enigmas, 145-65. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Dummett, Michael. "Realism." Synthese 52 (1982): 55-112.

Dummett, Michael. "What Is a Theory of Meaning? (I)." In The Seas of Language, 1-33. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

Dummett, Michael. "What Is a Theory of Meaning? (II)." In The Seas of Language, 34-93. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

Fine, Arthur. "And Not Antirealism Either." Noûs 18 (1984): 51-65.

Fine, Arthur. "The Natural Ontological Attitude." In Scientific Realism, edited by Jarrett Leplin, 83-107. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

McDowell, John. "Anti-realism and the Epistemology of Understanding." In Meaning and Understanding, edited by H. Parret and J. Bourveresse, 225-48. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1981.

McDowell, John. "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule." Synthese 58 (1984): 325-63.

McDowell, John. "In Defence of Modesty." In Michael Dummett: Contributions to Philosophy, edited by Barry Taylor, 59-80. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987.

Putnam, Hilary. Reason, Truth and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Putnam, Hilary. Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

Quine, Willard Van Orman. "Ontological Relativity." In Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, 26-68. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Rosen, Gideon. "Objectivity and Modern Idealism: What Is the Question?" In Philosophy of Mind, edited by Michaelis Michael and John O'Leary-Hawthorne, 277-319. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

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