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Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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From Truth to Reality
New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics
Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies...
Published November 25th 2008 by Routledge