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Lee Braver: A thing of this world: A history of continental anti-realism

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Notes

  1. Dummett (1978).

  2. For recent works in a “speculative realist” mold, see, e.g., Meillassoux (2008) and Brassier (2007). For the reading of Heidegger as an “ontic” realist, see Carman (2003). For partially “realist” readings of Derrida, see, e.g., Hägglund (2008) and Marder (2009).

  3. Tugendhat (1967). Thus, on Tugendhat’s view, Heidegger’s vision of truth as aletheia forces him to deny bivalence, not only in the relatively anodyne sense (familiar to anti-realists of Dummett’s stripe) of affirming a third truth-value for certain unverified and thus “indeterminate” propositions, but in the much more radical and problematic sense of disallowing any motivated criteria for distinguishing between true and false propositions at all.

  4. See, e.g., Frege (1997).

  5. For a different reading of some of these texts and figures which emphasizes the implications of the linguistic turn, see Livingston (2008).

  6. See Spivak (2005) and Derrida (1988).

  7. This context includes thinkers such as Hilary Putnam, upon whom Braver draws for many of his characterizations of anti-realism; for instance, in his 1981 paper “Beyond Historicism,” (Putnam 1983), Putnam argues vehemently against the historicism and (what he takes to be) the relativism of Rorty.

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Livingston, P. Lee Braver: A thing of this world: A history of continental anti-realism. Cont Philos Rev 45, 161–170 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-011-9210-9

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