PHIL 470: Seminar: Metaphysics & Epistemology
Truth and Reality
Spring 2006
Instructor: Dr. JeeLoo Liu
Department of Philosophy
California State University at Fullerton
jeelooliu@fullerton.edu
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The following handouts are for student use only. No quotation is permitted. (Feedback welcomed)
David, Truth as Correspondence
Rescher, Truth as Ideal Coherence
Hacck, Truth as Pragmatics
Horwich, Truth as Deflationary
Searle, Does the Real World Exist?
William Alston: Realism and the Tasks of Epistemology
Goodman, Worldmaking I
Gooddman, Worldmaking II
Putnam, Faces of Realism I
Putnam, Faces of Realism II
Alston, Sensible Realism
Quine, Ontological Relativity
Quine, Natural Kinds
Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning
Davidson, On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
Wiggins, Truth, Invention and Meaning of Life
Blackburn, How to Be an Ethical Anti-realist