
Pre-Owned Starmaking : Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism (Hardcover) 9780262133203
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- Title: Pre-Owned Starmaking : Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism (Hardcover) 9780262133203
- Book Format: Hardcover
- ISBN10: 0262133202
- EAN: 9780262133203
- Author(s): C. G. Hempel and Peter J. McCormick
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 1996
- Pre-Owned: Good: Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateJune, 1996
- Reading levelGrade 2
- PublisherBradford Book
- LanguageEnglish
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"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.
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.
"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.
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."
- Title: Pre-Owned Starmaking : Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism (Hardcover) 9780262133203
- Book Format: Hardcover
- ISBN10: 0262133202
- EAN: 9780262133203
- Author(s): C. G. Hempel and Peter J. McCormick
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 1996
- Pre-Owned: Good: Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included.
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