TY - BOOK

T1 - Realism and Rationality

AU - Gersel, Johan Peter

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - In my dissertation I investigate the possibility of thought about a mind-independent reality. I consider this in light of the requirement that Frege and Dummett place on an adequate theory of thought. I argue that the manifestation requirement that Dummett places on a theory of meaning has not been adequately responded to unless one can simultaneously live up to his requirement for a justification of our preferred deductive practices. I argue why common responses fail to accomplish this, but end by suggesting that one can experientially justify deduction and thereby support a realist theory of meaning

AB - In my dissertation I investigate the possibility of thought about a mind-independent reality. I consider this in light of the requirement that Frege and Dummett place on an adequate theory of thought. I argue that the manifestation requirement that Dummett places on a theory of meaning has not been adequately responded to unless one can simultaneously live up to his requirement for a justification of our preferred deductive practices. I argue why common responses fail to accomplish this, but end by suggesting that one can experientially justify deduction and thereby support a realist theory of meaning

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - meaning

KW - realism

KW - perception

KW - rationality

KW - Dummett

KW - Evans

KW - Campbell

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - Realism and Rationality

PB - Grafisk - KUA

ER -