TY - BOOK AU - Alston, William P. TI - Realism and antirealism SN - 97808014879030801487900 AV - B835 .R315 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Realism N1 - Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Alston, William P. -- I. BASIC ISSUES FOR REALISM AND ANTIREALISM -- 1. Realism, Antirealism, and Common Sense / Miller, Caleb -- 2. Realism and Irrealism: A Dialogue / McLeod, Mark S. -- 3. Dividing the World into Objects / Cortens, Andrew -- 4. Pluralism, Metaphysical Realism, and Ultimate Reality / Lynch, Michael P. -- 5. The God's I Point of View / Murray, Michael J. -- 6. What Metaphysical Realism Is Not / Alston, William P. -- II. TRUTH AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM -- 7ยท On the Metaphysical Implications of Alethic Realism / Woudenberg, Rene van -- 8. Why God Is Not a Semantic Realist / Anderson, David Leech -- III. REALISM AND EPISTEMOLOGY -- 9. Cooperative, Coordinative, and Coercive Epistemologies / Tollefsen, Christopher -- 10. "In Your Light, We See Light": The Continuing Viability of a Christocentric Epistemology / Smit, Laura A. -- IV. DEPARTMENTAL REALISMS AND ANTIREALISMS -- A. Religion -- 11. Thomism with a Realist Face: A Response to Hilary Putnam / Colvert, Gavin T. -- 12. Realist Reference to God: Analogy or Univocity? / Rolnick, Philip A. -- B. Science and Religion -- 13. Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricist Philosophy of Science and 2II Religious Belief: Prospects for a Unified Epistemology / Hiskes, Anne L. -- C. Literature and Morality -- 14. Truth in Fiction: The Whole Story / Howard-Snyder, Frances -- 15. Fiction as a Kind of Philosophy / Clark, Kelly James -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index ER -