• Devitt takes a provocative stance on key philosophical issues
• Clearly written and carefully argued
• A selection of the best work from one of today's best-known and most contentious philosophers

Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy

Michael Devitt, City University of New York

METAPHYSICS
1: "Ostrich Nominalism" or "Mirage Realism"?
Postscript to "'Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?"
2: Aberrations of the Realism Debate
Postscript to "Aberrations of the Realism Debate"
3: Underdetermination and Commonsense Realism
4: Scientific Realism
Postscript to "Scientific Realism"
5: Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics
Postscript to "Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics"
6: Global Response Dependency and Worldmaking
7: The Metaphysics of Nonfactualism
8: The Metaphysics of Truth
9: Moral Realism: A Naturalistic Perspective
10: Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms
11: Resurrecting Biological Essentialism
EPISTEMOLOGY
12: Naturalism and the A Priori
13: No Place for the A Priori
14: Intuitions
15: On Determining What There Isn't