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Semantic challenges to realism : Dummett and Putnam

Title
Semantic challenges to realism : Dummett and Putnam / Mark Quentin Gardiner.
Author
Gardiner, Mark Q. (Mark Quentin), 1963-
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.

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Description
x, 267 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Toronto studies in philosophy
Uniform Title
Toronto studies in philosophy.
Subject
  • Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011
  • Putnam, Hilary
  • Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011
  • Putnam, Hilary
  • Dummett, Michael 1925-2011
  • Putnam, Hilary 1926-2016
  • Dummett, Michael A. E
  • Realism
  • Semantics (Philosophy)
  • Realism
  • Realismus Philosophie
  • Realism (filosofi)
  • Semantik > filosofi
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
Contents
Table of contents (unedited publisher data) <PART I: DUMMETT'S SEMANTIC ANTI-REALISM I Dummett's Constraints -- Meaning and Metaphysics 9 2 Dummett's Critique of Semantic Realism 20 The Acquisition Argument 25 The Manifestation Argument 31 3 Responses to the Negative Program 54 Decidability 56 Decidability and Temporality 58 Decidability and Persons 64 Decidability and Capacities 68 Are There Any Undecidable Sentences? 70 Inaccessible Regions 71 Surveying Infinite Totalites 75 Use of Subjunctive Conditionals 79 Other Sources of Undecidability? 96 4 Responses to the Positive Program 106 Does an Anti-Realist Semantics Harmonize with the Constraints on Understanding? 106 Realist Routes to Manifestation 111 The Naivety of Both Realist and Anti-Realist Semantics 120 PART II: PUTNAM'S INTERNAL REALISM 5 Portraits: Metaphysical and Internal Realisms 139 6 The ModeThoretic Argument 157 Against the : Just More Theory Ploy 164 Against the Very Idea of an E pistemically Ideal Theory 173 7 Brains in Vats 183 The Argument 183 Version 1 184 Version 2 185 Responses to the Argument 187 The Vat Argument and Realism 190 8 The Argument from Equivalence 199 Against Verisimilitude 203 Against the Existential Claim 205 Empirical Equivalence and the Model-TheoreticArgument 209 A Second Argument from Equivalence 214 Conclusion 219 NOTES 225 BIBLIOGRAPHY 253 INDEX 263>
ISBN
  • 0802047718
  • 9780802047717
LCCN
00711162
OCLC
  • ocm43588819
  • 43588819
  • SCSB-9479556
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library