The Slightest Philosophy

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Dog Ear Publishing, 2007 - 276 pages
 

Contents

What Realism Cant
3
Straw Man Red Herring
9
The Same Waking that Dreaming
16
Are You on the Bus?
23
The Postmodern PrisonHouse
33
Seeing Things
43
Cross Your Eyes
50
The Case of the Bent
56
Peirce and Turkey
110
Color and Subjectivity
118
You Cant Get There From Here
135
Chancy vs Chancier
150
How Much is Enough Justification?
164
Is This an Appeal to Simplicity?
177
A Web of Coherence Founded on the Given
192
Humes Riddle of Induction
205

Are Observations TheoryLaden?
64
Arguments from Illusion
74
Are Objects Objective?
80
One Truth or Many?
86
Reference the Oval Coin
92
Losing the World
102
Is This Too Negative?
219
APPENDIX
241
BIBLIOGRAPHY
256
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