Realism, Idealism, Anti-Realism

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Selected Readings:

Alston, William P. “Yes, Virginia, There Is A Real World,” in Proceedings and Addresser of the American Philosophical Association, 52/6 (1979), pp. 779-802.
________. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism: The Aquinas Lecture, 2001. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2001.
________. A Reailst Conception of Truth. Ithaca: New York: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Armstrong, D. M. Universals and Scientific Realism, Volume I: Nominalism & Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Dummett, Michael. The Seas of Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Koon, Robert C. “The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism,” in Naturalism: A Critical Analysis. Edited by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 49-63.

Leplin, J. ed. Scientific Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Maddy, Penolope. Realism in Mathematics. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.

Matthews, Gareth B., and Cohen, S. Marc. “The One and the Many,” in The Review of Metaphysics 21, June 1968.

Moreland, J.P. “Science and Christianity,” in Scaling the Secular City. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987, pp. 185-223.
________. “Science,” in Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989, pp. 139-70.
________. “Alternatives to Scientific Realism,” in Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989, pp. 171-212.
________. & Craig, William Lane. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2003. See especially the discussion pp. 326-345.

Peacock, C. Thoughts: An Essay on Content. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Wright, C. Realism, Meaning and Truth. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Wagner, Steven J., and Warner, Richard. Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. On Universals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970

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