Starmaking : realism, anti-realism, and irrealism /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996. ©1996 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 218 pages) : 1 illustration |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Representation and mind Representation and mind. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101917 |
| Summary: | <p> "Starmaking" brings together a cluster of work published over the past 35 years by Nelson Goodman and two Harvard colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism -- issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology.<p>The title alludes to Goodman's famous defense of the claim that because all true representations of stars and other objects are human creations, it follows that in an important sense the stars themselves are made by us. More generally, the argument moves from the fact that our right representations are constructed by us to the claim that the world itself is similarly constructed.<p> "Starmaking" addresses the question of whether this seeming paradox can be turned into a serious philosophical view. Goodman and Putnam are sympathetic; Scheffler is the critic.<p>Although many others continue to write about pluralism, relativism, and constructionalism, "Starmaking" brings together the protagonists in the debate since its beginnings and follows closely its still developing form and substance, focusing sharply on Goodman's claim that "we make versions, and right versions make worlds." |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 218 pages) : 1 illustration |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585021201 9780585021201 9780262279390 0262279398 9780262133203 0262133202 |