Truth and Realism

• Deep questions at the core of philosophy
• Stellar line-up of contributors
• Relativism is a topic of contention throughout the humanities and social sciences

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy

Edited by Patrick Greenough, University of St Andrews, and Michael P. Lynch, University of Connecticut

Introduction
I. Truth and Relativism
1: Paul Boghossian: What is Relativism?
2: Crispin Wright: True Relativism
3: JC Beall: Modelling the 'Ordinary View'
II. Realism and Antirealism
4: Michael Williams: Realism. What's Left?
5: Michael Devitt: Scientific Realism
6: Christopher Gauker: Scientific Realism as an Issue in Semantics
7: Terence Horgan and Matjaz Potrc: Abundant Truth in an Austere World
8: Mark Richard: Context, Vagueness, and Ontology
III. Methodology and the Nature of the Debates
9: Timothy Williamson: Must Do Better
10: Paul Horwich: A World Without Isms
11: Marian David: Horwich's World
12: Ernest Sosa: Intuitions and Truth
13: Michael P. Lynch: Trusting Intuitions
14: Richard Rorty: Truth and Realism: Remarks at St Andrews