Starmaking : realism, anti-realism, and irrealism
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Starmaking : realism, anti-realism, and irrealism
（Representation and mind / Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors）
MIT Press, c1996
- hbk
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Starmaking brings together a cluster of work published over the past 35 years by Nelson Goodman and two Harvard colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism -- issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology. The title alludes to Goodman's famous defense of the claim that because all true representations of stars and other objects are human creations, it follows that in an important sense the stars themselves are made by us. More generally, the argument moves from the fact that our right representations are constructed by us to the claim that the world itself is similarly constructed. Starmaking addresses the question of whether this seeming paradox can be turned into a serious philosophical view. Goodman and Putnam are sympathetic; Scheffler is the critic.
Although many others continue to write about pluralism, relativism, and constructionalism, Starmaking brings together the protagonists in the debate since its beginnings and follows closely its still developing form and substance, focusing sharply on Goodman's claim that "we make versions, and right versions make worlds."
Table of Contents
- Background: The way the world is, Nelson Goodman
- Is there still anything to say about reality and truth? Hilary Putman
- Epistemology of objectivity, Israel Scheffler. Worldmaking: Words, works, worlds, Nelson Goodman
- On rightness of rendering, Nelson Goodman. Reactions: Reflections on Goodman's "Ways of wordmaking", Hilary Putman
- Comments on Goodman's "Ways of worldmaking", Carl G. Hempel
- The wonderful worlds of Goodman, Israel Scheffler
- On starmaking, Nelson Goodman. Elaborations: Notes on the well-made world, Nelson Goodamn
- Reply to Goodman, Israel Scheffler
- On some worldly worries, Nelson Goodman. Responses: Worldmaking: why worry, Israel Scheffler
- Irrealism and deconstruction, Hilary Putman. Beyond realism and anti-realism: Comments, Nelson Goodman.
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