Essays in Quasi-Realism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 August 1993
- ISBN 9780195080414
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 243x159x21 mm
- Weight 563 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume collects together Simon Blackburn's influential essays on `quasi-realism', a position he first introduced in 1980 and which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics.
MoreLong description:
In these essays, Simon Blackburn explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgements relate to the world.
This debate has centred on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the `quasi-realist' dramatizes the difficulty of conducting these debates. Typically philosophers thinking of themselves as realists will believe that they alone can give a proper or literal account of some of our attachments–to truth, to facts, to the independent world, to knowledge, and to certainty. The quasi-realist challenge, developed by Blackburn in this volume, is that we can have those attachments without any metaphysic that deserves calling realism, so that the metaphysical picture that goes with our practices is quite idle. The cases treated here include the theories of value and of knowledge, modality, probability, causation, intentionality and rule-following, and explanation.
A substantial new introduction has been added, drawing together some of the central themes.
`The papers span nearly twenty years, and although some are well known, it is useful to have them in one volume ... a rich field.'
Times Literary Supplement
