Starmaking: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism

"Starmaking" brings together a cluster of work published over the past 35 years by Nelson Goodman and two Harvard colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism -- issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology.The title alludes to Goodman's famous defense of the claim that because all true representations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133202
• ISBN13: 9780262133203
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher