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Logic is Metaphysics [PDF]

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2011
Analyzing the position of two philosophers whose views are recognizably divergent, W. O. Quine and M. Dummett, we intend to support a striking point of agreement between them: the idea that our logical principles constitute our principles about what ...
Daniel Durante Pereira Alves
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Making metaethics work for AI: realism and anti-realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Engineering an artificial intelligence to play an advisory role in morally charged decision making will inevitably introduce meta-ethical positions into the design.
Frank, Lily E., Klincewicz, Michal
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Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare.
Rubin, Michael, Schwenkenbecher, Anne
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Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We depend upon the community for justified belief in scientific theory. This dependence can suggest that our individual belief in scientific theory is justified because the community believes it to be justified.
Faulkner, P.
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Non-defensible middle ground for experimental realism: Why we are justified to believe in colored quarks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Experimental realism aims at striking a middle ground between scientific realism and anti-realism, between the success of experimental physics it would explain and the realism about scientific theories it would supplant. This middle ground reinstates the
Massimi, M
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Towards Cognitive Moral Quasi-Realism

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2018
There is a long-standing discussion concerning the nature of moral discourse. Multiple views range from realism—according to which moral discourse is closer to scientific discourse than to fictional discourse—to anti-realism—according to which moral ...
Eduardo García-Ramírez
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Philosophy of Chemistry against Standard Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ, 2015
In this paper, it is suggested that philosophy of chemistry can be seen as having quite a central role in the post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in general, and in analysing the scientificc realism vs anti-realism debate in standard philosophy of science,
Rein Vihalemm
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Criticism of Don Cupitt's anti-realist faith from the point of view of examining the foundations of modern philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا
The main issue of this article is to examine the religious studies aspects of the anti-realist viewpoint of Don Cupitt- an English theologian - from the entry of examining his viewpoint about God, the religion of mysticism, as well as the analytical ...
somayeh zarei, Qorban Elmi
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Semantic Anti-Realism in Kant’s Antinomy Chapter

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2022
By considering the semantic footings of the so-called antinomies of pure reason, this article contributes to the debate about whether Kant was committed to semantic realism or anti-realism.
Willert Kristoffer
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Dummettʼs Anti-Realism about Mathematical Statements

open access: yesFilosofie Dnes, 2023
Just as the accuracy of scientific theories is best tested in extreme physical conditions, it is advisable to verify the accuracy of a recognized conception of language on its extreme parts.
Jan Štěpánek
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