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Quasi-Quasi-Realism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1990
(i) According to Simon Blackburn, someone who wants to avoid a 'realistic' account of our moral thought faces a choice.' The choice is between his non-reductionist 'projectivism' and reductionist 'subjectivism'. The former is the view that moral judgments express attitudes (approval, disapproval, liking or disliking, for example), which we 'project' or
Nick Zangwill
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Non-Cognitivism and Quasi-Realism

2011
AbstractThis chapter considers Non-Cognitivism and Quasi-Realism. According to Non-Cognitivists, normative claims are not intended to state facts, except perhaps in some minimal sense. Morality essentially involves certain kinds of desire, or other conative attitude. For Expressivists, such attitudes are expressed by moral claims.
Samuel Scheffler, Parfit Derek
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Scientific Quasi-Realism

Mind, 1990
I propose to discuss Richard Jennings' advocacy of quasi-realism as a new way of looking at science. I shall not be concerned with quasi-realism in relation to ethical realism and emotivism. Jennings accepts that the instrumentalist view of scientific theories is unsatisfactory, since it does not allow us to talk of theoretical facts or to make truth ...
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Quasi-Realism in Mathematics

Monist, 2000
Interrogeant la possibilite meme des mathematiques dans une perspective kantienne, l'A. se propose de definir l'objet de la discipline, concernant l'affirmation d'une verite, ainsi que la nature de la connaissance mathematique. Distinguant entre les theories concretes et les theories abstraites, l'A.
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Quasi-Realism no Fictionalism

2005
Abstract Suppose that Simon Blackburn’s quasi-realist program has succeeded perfectly on its own terms-something I think not unlikely. Given the controversial nature of the program, this much endorsement from a philosopher and logician of Lewis’ stature is pleasant indeed.
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Essays in Quasi-Realism

1993
Abstract 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
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