Saving the differences : essays on themes from Truth and objectivity
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Saving the differences : essays on themes from Truth and objectivity
Harvard University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-530) and index
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Description
Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity brought about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debates concerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposals put forward in that landmark work.
The collection includes the Gareth Evans memorial lecture in which the program of Truth and Objectivity was first announced, as well as all of Wright's published reactions to the extensive commentary his study provoked; it presents substantial new developments and applications of the pluralistic outlook on the realism debates proposed in Truth and Objectivity, and further pursues its distinctive minimalist conceptions of truth and of truth-aptitude. Among the papers are important discussions of coherence conceptions of truth, of Hilary Putnam's most recent views on truth, and of the classical debate between correspondence, coherence, pragmatism, and deflationary conceptions of the notion. Others are concerned with Kripke's famous argument against physicalist conceptions of sensation; the distinction between minimal truth-aptitude and cognitive command; a novel prospectus for a philosophy of vagueness; and a new proposal about the most resilient interpretation of relativism.
Table of Contents
Preface I. Realism Reconfigured 1. Precis of Truth and Objectivity 2. Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism II. Replies to Critics 3. Response to Jackson 4. Realism, Pure and Simple? A Reply to Williamson 5. Responses to Commentators: Van Cleve, Horwich, Pettit, Horgan, Sainsbury, Williamson 6. Comrades against Quietism III. Ethics 7. Moral Values, Projection and Secondary Qualities 8. Truth in Ethics IV. Truth 9. Truth as Coherence 10. Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed 11. Truth as Sort of Epistemic: Putnam's Peregrinations 12. Minimalism and Deflationism V. Response-Dependence and Cognitive Command 13. The Conceivability of Naturalism 14. What Could Anti-Realism about Ordinary Psychology Possibly Be? 15. On Being in a Quandary: Relativism, Vagueness, Logical Revisionism References Additional Readings Credits Index
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