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The Limits of Realism (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Realism (Hardcover)
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Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world;
between semantics and scepticism. A certain kind of philosopher-the
external realist-worries that appearances might be radically
deceptive; we might all, for example, be brains in vats, stimulated
by an infernal machine. But anyone who entertains the possibility
of radical deception must also entertain a further worry: that all
of our thoughts are totally contentless. That worry is just
incoherent. We cannot, then, be external realists, who worry about
the possibility of radical deception. Equally, though, we cannot be
internal realists, who reject all possibility of deception. We must
position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external
realism, but we cannot hope to say exactly where. We must be
realists, for what that is worth, and realists within limits. In
establishing these claims, Button critically explores and develops
several themes from Hilary Putnam's work: the model-theoretic
arguments; the connection between truth and justification; the
brain-in-vat argument; semantic externalism; and conceptual
relativity. The Limits of Realism establishes the continued
significance of these topics for all philosophers interested in
mind, logic, language, or the possibility of metaphysics.
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