Introduction -- Presuppositions and other commitments : W.V.O. Quine -- Crucial importance of what is presupposed -- Quine and the utopia of extensionality -- Existence trumps ontological commitment -- Existence, theoretical constructs and common sense -- Conceptual schemes : Donald Davidson -- Historical survey -- Davidson’s critique -- Truth makers -- Objective truth -- Interpretation and common sense : Richard Rorty -- After the linguistic turn -- Truth & intersubjective agreement -- Pre-philosophical convictions -- Realism and reticence : Hilary Putnam -- Analytic and post-analytic philosophy -- On the view from nowhere -- Internal realism with a capital R -- Concluding review -- Philosophy unbound -- The future of philosophy.
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