Semantic Challenges to Realism: Dummett and Putnam (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PART I: DUMMETT\'S SEMANTIC ANTI-REALISM......Page 18
1 Dummett\'s Constraints – Meaning and Metaphysics......Page 20
2 Dummett\'s Critique of Semantic Realism......Page 31
The Acquisition Argument......Page 36
The Manifestation Argument......Page 42
3 Responses to the Negative Program......Page 65
Decidability......Page 67
Are There Any Undecidable Sentences?......Page 81
Other Sources of Undecidability?......Page 107
Does an Anti-Realist Semantics Harmonize with the Constraints on Understanding?......Page 117
Realist Routes to Manifestation......Page 122
The Naivety of Both Realist and Anti-Realist Semantics......Page 131
PART II: PUTNAM\'S INTERNAL REALISM......Page 148
5 Portraits: Metaphysical and Internal Realisms......Page 150
6 The Model-Theoretic Argument......Page 168
Against the \"Just More Theory\" Ploy......Page 175
Against the Very Idea of an Epistemically Ideal Theory......Page 184
The Argument......Page 194
Responses to the Argument......Page 198
The Vat Argument and Realism......Page 201
8 The Argument from Equivalence......Page 210
Against Verisimilitude......Page 214
Against the Existential Claim......Page 216
Empirical Equivalence and the Model-Theoretic Argument......Page 220
A Second Argument from Equivalence......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 230
NOTES......Page 236
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 264
D......Page 274
H......Page 275
N......Page 276
R......Page 277
Y......Page 278