{"product_id":"language-logic-and-experience-the-case-for-antirealism-9780812690620","title":"Language  Logic  and Experience: The Case For Anti-Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook jacket\/back: Realism is a myth. It is an unnecessary and untenable myth which has overshadowed our grasp of the concepts of objectivity and truth. This book seeks to show why it is an untenable myth and how we can live with the recognition that it is unnecessary.  So deeply entrenched is the myth of realism that  until recently  one was hard pressed to characterize the position in any but a metaphorical manner. One would say that realism is the view that the world we take as the object of our cognitive enquiries is an objective world whose existence and constitution is independent of our knowledge of it. Often one hears the point put that it is a world out there! Although the debate about realism has been  and is  a philosophical debate about what I take to be a philosophical myth  it is a debate which reaches beyond strictly philosophical issues  for this myth is infected  and is responsible for  debates in other disciplines concerning the possibility of construing their activities at objective cognitive enquiries. The social sciences are an obvious example  but the myth goes deeper  reaching into widespread nihilism prompted by what is seen as the thwarting of scientific objectivity by what Camus called the \"unreasonable silence of the world\" (The Myth of Sisyphus). If the arguments in this book are correct many of these broader problems can be resolved and we will find that  far from being confronted by an unreasonable silence  we are bombarded with an excess of noise when we come to see our concepts of objectivity and truth aright...\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932724854837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812690621","price":59.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812690620.jpg?v=1794229103","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/language-logic-and-experience-the-case-for-antirealism-9780812690620","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}