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Putting metaphysics first : essays on metaphysics and epistemology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devitt, Michael
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Metaphysics
  • "Ostrich nominalism"' or "mirage realism"?
  • Postscript to "Ostrich nominalism" or "mirage realism"?
  • Aberrations of the realism debate
  • Postscript to "aberrations of the realism debate"
  • Underdetermination and commonsense realism
  • Scientificrealism
  • Postscript to "scientific realism"
  • Incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics
  • Postscript to "incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics"
  • Global response dependency and worldmaking
  • The metaphysics of nonfactualism
  • The metaphysics of truth
  • Moral realism : a naturalistic perspective
  • Natural kinds and biological realisms
  • Resurrecting biological essentialism
  • Epistemology
  • Naturalism and the a priori
  • No place for the a priori
  • Intuitions
  • On determining what there isn't.