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Realism and Anti-Realism

open access: yes, 2017
The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is misguided. There are more or less apt versions of the distinction, each framed with a specific set of interests. The terms of art, ‘realist’ and ‘anti-realist’, are not helpfully construed as applying across whole domains (‘science’, ‘religion’, ‘ethics’
Christopher J Insole
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Kant's Transcendental Idealism and Contemporary Anti‐Realism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2003
This paper compares Kant's transcendental idealism with three main groups of contemporary anti-realism, associated with Wittgenstein, Putnam, and Dummett, respectively.
Lucy Allais
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The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]

open access: yesGrazer Philosophische Studien, 2018
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Seungbae Park
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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism

open access: yes, 2022
Minimally, metaphysical realists hold that there exist some mind-independent entities. Metaphysical realists also (tend) to hold that we can speak meaningfully or truthfully about mind-independent entities. Those that reject metaphysical realism deny one
J T M Miller
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Undecidability in Anti-Realism

Philosophia Mathematica, 1998
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Anti-realism and speaker knowledge

Synthese, 1996
Dummettian anti-realism repudiates the realist's notion of ‘verification-transcendent’ truth. Perhaps the most crucial element in the Dummettian attack on realist truth is the critique of so-called “realist semantics”, which assigns verification-transcendent truth-conditions as the meanings of (some) sentences.
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Logicism, the Continuum and Anti-Realism

Analysis, 1993
Within the foundations of mathematics it is traditional to see the irreconcilability of realism and constructivism as emerging, at least in its starkest form, at the level of the classical continuum or the real line. However I argue here that there is a sense in which the dichotomy between classical mathematics and anti-realism cannot really be ...
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