Realism versus Realism
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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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Realism versus Realism: Transcendent and Immanent
Chapter 4 The Way the Real Appears Is the Way It Is
Chapter 5 Realism versus Nominalism: From Quine's Immanent Metaphysical Point of View
Chapter 6 Skepticism against Realisms
Chapter 7 Peirce's Halfway House between Two Realisms
Chapter 8 Putnam's Resolution of the Realist Relativist Controversy
Chapter 9 Postscript
Product details
| Published | 02 Oct 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 184 |
| ISBN | 9781461705383 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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