Discussion Note on Hasok Chang: Realism for Realistic People

Paul Hoyningen-Huene; K. Brad Wray

doi:10.1007/s10838-024-09704-6

Discussion Note on Hasok Chang: Realism for Realistic People

Paul Hoyningen-Huene^*, K. Brad Wray

^*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

Institut for Matematik - Videnskabsstudier

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Anmeldelse › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

We first discuss Chang’s criticism of the correspondence theory of truth and of what he calls ‘correspondence realism’. We think that correspondence can be rescued if properly reshaped. We then take up Chang’s alternative to the correspondence theory of truth, his ‘truth-by-operational-coherence’, which we think does not fit many truths from social life. The topic of realism, implicitly present already in the previous topics, is subsequently explicitly treated. What Chang calls realism is, in effect, very close to what has customarily been called anti-realism. Finally, we discuss the tension that exists in Chang’s book between his vigorous defense of pluralism on the object-level and his apparently taken-for-granted monism on the metalevel, namely pragmatism.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-024-09704-6
Tidsskrift	Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Antal sider	12
ISSN	0925-4560
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-024-09704-6
Status	E-pub / Early view - jun. 2025

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