Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy, especially the history of modern philosophy, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics
Robert Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder
Introduction Part I: Empirical Realism and Scientific Realism 1: Direct Perceptual Realism I: The Refutation of Idealism 2: Direct Perceptual Realism II: Nonconceptual Content 3: Manifest Realism I: A Critique of Scientific Essentialism 4: Manifest Realism II: Why Gold is Necessarily a Yellow Metal Part II: The Practical Foundations of the Exact Sciences 5: Truth and Human Nature 6: Mathematics for Humans 7: How Do We Know Necessary Truths? 8: Where There's a Will There's a Way: Causation and Freedom