We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to
happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that
some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been
otherwise. And in acting intentionally we all take certain things
to be good reason to believe or do certain things. In this book
Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are
indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all. That
means no one could consistently dismiss all beliefs of these kinds
as merely ways of thinking that do not describe how things really
are in the world as it is independently of us and our responses.
But the unacceptability of any such negative 'unmasking' view does
not support a satisfyingly positive metaphysical 'realism'. No
metaphysical satisfaction is available either way, given the
conditions of our holding the beliefs whose metaphysical status we
wish to understand. This does not mean we will stop asking the
metaphysical question. But we need a better understanding of how it
can have whatever sense it has for us. This challenging volume
takes up these large, fundamental questions in clear language
accessible to a wide philosophical readership.
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