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Realism and Antirealism (Paperback)
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Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of
realism and its alternatives. Realism the seemingly commonsensical
view that all or most of what we encounter in the world exists and
is what it is independently of human thought has been vigorously
denied by such prominent intellectuals as Jacques Derrida, Michel
Foucault, Richard Rorty, Thomas Kuhn, Hilary Putnam, and Nelson
Goodman. The opponents of realism, among them historians and social
scientists who support social constructionism, hold that all or
most of reality depends on human conceptual schemes and beliefs. In
this volume of original essays, a group of philosophers explores
the ongoing controversy. The book opens with an introduction by
William P. Alston, whose writing on the subject has been widely
influential. Selected essays then compare and contrast aspects of
the arguments put forward by the realists with those of the
antirealists. Other chapters discuss the importance of the debate
for philosophical topics such as epistemology and for domains
ranging from religion, literature, and science to morality."
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