Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes A Defense of Internal Realis
1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The purpose of the book is to develop internal realism, the metaphysical-episte mological doctrine initiated by Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History, "Introduction", Many Faces). In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite hea
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Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California JAN WOLEN-SKI, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
VOLUME 296
GABOR FORRA! University of Miskolc, Hungary
REFERENCE, TRUTH AND
CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES A Defense of Internal Realism
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5677-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2868-3
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has grown out of my PhD dissertation written at the University of Notre Dame under Gary Gutting's supervision. I am very grateful to him for his advice and encouragement. I have also benefitted from the conversations with Marian David and Michael Kremer. In the following years I also had a chance to discuss the issues treated here with Ferenc Altrichter, Marta Feher, Ferenc Huoranszki, Tihamer Margitay, Howard Robinson and Marta Ujvari. Katalin Bimbo, Katalin Farkas and Zoltan Szabo have read parts of the original manuscript, and their comments were extremely valuable. Peter Sullivan and Jose Luis Bermudez have read the complete manuscript and have given me excellent advice about how to restructure the material to make it more like a book rather than a PhD dissertation. Much of section 4.3 was published in Dialectica Vol. 50, Fasc. 4 (1996), pp. 259-74 under the title "Internal Realism, Metaphyiscal Realism, and Brains in a Vat". It is reproduced here with the permission of the publisher. A different form of thanks is due to my wife and daughter who accepted without complaints that I often devoted more time to the book than to them. Gabor Forrai
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. 1.2.
Historical Background The Plan of the Book
CHAPTER 2
METAPHYSICAL REALISM AND INTERNAL REALISM
10
2.1. 2.2.
Metaphysical Realism Internal Realism
10 23
CHAPTER 3
REFERENCE
40
3.1. 3.2. 3.3.
An Internal Realist Account of Reference Quinean Indeterminacy and MiscIassification Twin Earth and Mental Content
41 51 62
CHAPTER 4
TRUTH
73
4.1. 4.2. 4.3.
Truth Within a Conceptual Scheme The Adequacy of Conceptual Schemes Global Skepticism and Brains in a Vat
74 83 96
CHAPTERS
CONCEPTUAL PLURALISM
110
5.1. 5.2. 5.3.
On Sharing a Domain Davidson's Challenge Physicalism, Naturalism, and Relativism
110 117
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