Putting Metaphysics First: Essays on Metaphysics and Epistemology

by Michael Devitt

Book Overview

The metaphysical part of this book is largely concerned with realism issues. Michael Devitt starts with realism about universals, dismissing Plato's notorious 'one over many' problem. Several chapters argue for a fairly uncompromisingly realist view of the external physical world of commonsense and science. Both the nonfactualism of moral noncognitivism and positivistic instrumentalism, and defl ationism about truth, are found to rest on an antirealism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199576971
• ISBN13: 9780199576975
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"