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The authors of Austere Realism describe and defend a provocative
ontological-cum-semantic position, asserting that the right ontology is minimal or
austere, in that it excludes numerous common-sense posits, and that statements
employing such posits are nonetheless true, when truth is understood to be semantic
correctness under contextually operative semantic standards. Terence Horgan and
Matjaz [hacek over z] Potrc [hacek over c] argue that austere realism emerges
naturally from consideration of the deep problems within the naive common-sense
approach to truth and ontology. They offer an account of truth that confronts these
deep internal problems and is independently plausible: contextual semantics, which
asserts that truth is semantically correct affirmability. Under contextual
semantics, much ordinary and scientific thought and discourse is true because its
truth is indirect correspondence to the world. After offering further arguments for
austere realism and addressing objections to it, Horgan and Potrc [hacek over c]
consider various alternative austere ontologies. They advance a specific version
they call "blobjectivism"--the view that the right ontology includes only
one concrete particular, the entire cosmos ("the blobject"), which,
although it has enormous local spatiotemporal variability, does not have any proper
parts. The arguments in Austere Realism are powerfully made and concisely and
lucidly set out. The authors' contentions and their methodological
approach--products of a decade-long collaboration--will generate lively debate among
scholars in metaphysics, ontology, and philosophy. Terence E. Horgan is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Matjaz [hacek over z] Potrc [hacek over c]
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.

Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology (Representation and Mind series) by Terence E. Horgan

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