| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) |
| Contents |
Realism, antirealism, and common sense / Caleb Miller -- Realism and irrealism: a dialogue / Mark S. McLeod -- Dividing the world into objects / Andrew Cortens -- Pluralism, metaphysical realism, and ultimate reality / Michael P. Lynch -- The God's I point of view / Michael J. Murray -- What metaphysical realism is not / William P. Alston -- On the metaphysical implications of alethic realism / Ren ̌van Woudenberg -- Why god is not a semantic realist / David Leech Anderson -- Cooperative, coordinative, and coercive epistemologies / Christopher Tollefsen -- "In your light, we see light": the continuing viability of a Christocentric epistemology / Laura A. Smit -- Thomism with a realist face: a response to Hilary Putnam / Gavin T. Colvert -- Realist reference to God: analogy or univocity? / Philip A. Rolnick -- Van Fraassen's constructive empiricist philosophy of science and religious belief: prospects for a unified epistemology / Anne L. Hiskes -- Truth in fiction: the whole story / Frances Howard-Snyder -- Fiction as a kind of philosophy / Kelly James Clark |
| Summary |
Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. In this volume of original essays, a group of philosophers explores the ongoing controversy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 295) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Realism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Realism.
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Realism.
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Realisme (filosofie)
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Réalisme.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Alston, William P
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| ISBN |
9781501720567 |
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1501720562 |
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