Tim Button

The Limits of Realism

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Produktbeschreibung

Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672172
• ISBN-10: 0199672172
• Artikelnr.: 47868286

Autorenporträt

Tim Button is a University Lecturer, and a Fellow of St John's College, at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

A External realism
1: The picture of external realism
2: The model-theoretic arguments
3: Attempts to constrain reference
4: The just-more-theory manoeuvre
5: Empiricism and empirical content
6: Sceptical veils of various fabrics
7: From Cartesian to Kantian angst
B The tenacity of Cartesian angst
8: How the serpent entered Eden
9: Nonrealism
10: Natural realism
11: Justificationism
C Dissecting brains in vats
12: Putnam's brain-in-vat argument
13: The resilience of the brain-in-vat argument
14: Davidson's Cogito
15: Vat variations
16: Mitigated aporia
D Realism within limits
17: Semantic externalism
18: Conceptual relativism
19: Conceptual cosmopolitanism
Appendices
I: Model theory primer
II: Fitch-style reasoning
Bibliography
Index