Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction.- 2. Quine I: The Bold Physicalism of Word and Object.- 3. Quine II: The Evolutionary-Perceptional Account.- 4. Burge: Proto-Predicates in Perceptual Representations.- 5. Maddy: Conceiving Logic as an Innate Cognitive Mechanism.- 6.Quine's Empiricist Justificatory Monism.- 7. Why Justificatory Monism Needs Scientific Realism.- 8. Scientifically Defending Realism I: Psillos' Holistic Approach.- 9. Scientifically Defending Realism II: Maddy's Piecemeal Realism.- 10. Conclusion.