Realism and explanatory priority /

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism. But the precise nature of the issues that form the focus of the debate remains controversial. In Realism and Explanatory Priority a new way of viewing the debate is developed. The...

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Main Author: Wright, John (John N.)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1997]
Series:Philosophical studies series ; v. 71.
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505 0 0 |t What is the Realism/Anti-Realism Issue? --  |t A Theory of Dependence --  |t The Explanatory Priority View of the Realism/Anti-Realism Issue --  |t Arguments for a Weak Form of Realism --  |t A Strategy for Determining the Scope of Realism --  |t Does Novel Success Need to be Explained by Truth? --  |t Epistemic Truth and the Explanation of Novel Confirmation --  |t The Arguments Against Realism --  |t The Evidence for Realim-1: Evidence for Truth that is Independent of the Epistemic --  |t The Evidence for Realism-II: The Evidence for Independence from Discourse. 
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