On Determining What There Isn't

Stich: And His Critics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-61

  Devitt, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

"How are we to go about deciding whether or not the entities posited by any false theory exist?"; Empirical metaphysics and empirical semantics; metaphysics before semantics Stich's gloom about theory of reference leads and "semantic ascent"; On determining what there isn't; Stich attracted to arguments for eliminativism about the mind arguments against "intentional realism"; Stich is absolutely right it was a mistake to tackle ontological issues, including that of intentional realism, by appeal to theory of reference; Theory of reference as folk semantics Stich, usual epistemic one but rather a special metaphysical methodological one; Theory of Reference as Proto Science Stich describing proto science account

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EID: 82455186616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308709.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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