Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Aberrations of the realism debate

  • Published:
Philosophical Studies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Aune, Bruce. 1987. “Conceptual Relativism.” In Tomberlin 1987: 269–85.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blackburn, Simon. 1980. “Truth, Realism, and the Regulation of Theory.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1980: 353–71.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blackburn, Thomas. 1988. In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 179–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boyd, Richard N. 1984. “The Current Status of Scientific Realism.” In Leplin 1984a: 41–82.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brandom, Robert. 1988. “Pragmatism, Phenomenalism, and Truth Talk.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 75–93.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brown, Curtis. 1988. “Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 145–55.

    Google Scholar 

  • Churchland, Paul M. 1979. Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Churchland, Paul M., and Clifford A. Hooker. eds. 1985. Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. 1981. Designation. New York: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. (1983a). “Dummett's Anti-Realism.” Journal of Philosophy 80: 73–99.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. (1983b). “Realism and the Renegade Putnam.” A critical study of Putnam 1978. Nous 17: 291–301.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. (1983c). “Realism and Semantics.” Part II of a critical study of French, Uehling and Wettstein 1980. Nous 17: 669–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. 1984. Realism and Truth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. 1987. “Does Realism Explain Success?” Revue Internationale De Philosophie: New Trends in Realism: An Australian Perspective: 29–44.

  • Devitt, Michael. (1988a). “Realism Without Truth: A Response to Bertolet.” Analysis 48: 198–203.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael. 1988b). “Rorty's Mirrorless World.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 157–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devitt, Michael, and Kim Sterelny. 1987. Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael. 1973. Frege: Philosophy of Language. London: Duckworth.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael. 1977. Elements of Intuitionism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dummett, Michael. 1978. Truth and Other Enigmas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, Brian. 1985. “What Science Aims to Do.” In Churchland and Hooker 1985: 48–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fales, Evan. 1988. “How to be a Metaphysical Realist.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 253–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Field, Hartry. 1978. “Mental Representation.” Erkenntnis 13: 9–61.

    Google Scholar 

  • Field, Hartry. 1986. “The Deflationary Conception of Truth.” In Fact, Science, and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic, edited by Graham MacDonald and Crispin Wright. Oxford: Basil Blackwell: 55–117.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fine, Arthur. (1986a). The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fine, Arthur. (1986b). “Unnatural attitudes: Realist and Instrumentalist Attachments to Science.” Mind 95: 149–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. 1980. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume V: Studies in Epistemology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. 1988. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XII: Realism and Antirealism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grover, Dorothy, L., Joseph L. Camp, Jr., and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. 1975. “A Prosentential Theory of Truth.” Philosophical Studies 27: 73–125.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haack, Susan. 1987. “‘Realism’.” Synthese 73: 275–99.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hacking, Ian. 1983. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heller, Mark. 1988. “Putnam, Reference, and Realism.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 113–27.

    Google Scholar 

  • Laudan, Larry. 1981. “A Confutation of Convergent Realism.” Philosophy of Science 48: 19–49. Reprinted in Leplin 1984a.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leeds, Stephen. 1978. “Theories of Reference and Truth.” Erkenntnis 13: 111–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leplin, Jarrett, ed. (1984a). Scientific Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leplin, Jarrett. 1984b). “Introduction.” In Leplin 1984a: 1–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • LePore, Ernest, and Barry Loewer. 1988. “A Putnam's Progress.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 459–73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levin, Michael. 1984. “What Kind of Explanation is Truth?” In Leplin 1984a: 124–39.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, David. 1984. “Putnam's Paradox.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62: 221–36.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luntley, Michael. 1988. Language, Logic and Experience: The Case for Anti-Realism. La Salle: Open Court.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lycan, William G. 1988. Judgement and Justification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Margolis, Joseph. 1986. Pragmatism Without Foundations: Reconciling Realism and Relativism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • McMichael, Alan. 1988. “Creative Ontology and Absolute Truth.” In French, Uehling and Wettstein 1988: 51–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1978. Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1979. “Reflections on Goodman's Ways of World-Making.” Journal of Philosophy 76: 603–18.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1981. Reason, Truth and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1983. Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers Volume 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1985. “A Comparison of Something with Something Else.” New Literary History 17: 61–79.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Hilary. 1987. The Many Faces of Realism. LaSalle: Open Court.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quine, W. V. 1970. Philosophy of Logic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rorty, Richard. 1976. “Realism and Reference.” Monist 59: 321–40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rorty, Richard. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rorty, Richard. 1982. Consequences of Pragmaticism (Essays: 1972–1980). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stich, Stephen P. 1983. From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stove, D. C. Forthcoming. Cole Porter and Karl Popper and Other Re-Evaluations in Philosophy.

  • Taylor, Barry. 1987. “The Truth in Realism.” Revue Internationale De Philosophie: New Trends in Realism: An Australian Perspective: 45–63.

  • Tomberlin, James T., ed. 1987. Philosophical Perspectives, 1: Metaphysics, 1987. Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company.

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Fraassen, Bas C. 1980. The Scientific Image. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Fraassen, Bas C. 1985. “Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science.” In Churchland and Hooker 1985: 245–308.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolterstorff, Nicholas. “Are Concept-Users World-Makers?” In Tomberlin 1987, 233–67.

  • Wright, Crispin. 1988. “Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism.” In French, Uehling, Wettstein 1988: 25–49.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, Maryland, USA

    Michael Devitt

Authors
  1. Michael Devitt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Devitt, M. Aberrations of the realism debate. Philos Stud 61, 43–63 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385832

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385832

Keywords

Search

Navigation