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Realism v Equilibrism about Philosophy

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dc.contributor.authorStoljar, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-21T00:11:07Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-09-11T08:17:56Z
dc.description.abstractAccording to the realist about philosophy, the goal of philosophy is to come to know the truth about philosophical questions; according to what Helen Beebee calls equilibrism, by contrast, the goal is rather to place one’s commitments in a coherent system. In this paper, I present a critique of equilibrism in the form Beebee defends it, paying particular attention to her suggestion that various meta-philosophical remarks made by David Lewis may be recruited to defend equilibrism. At the end of the paper, I point out that a realist about philosophy may also be a pluralist about philosophical culture, thus undermining one main motivation for equilibrism.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1974-5044en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/311063
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSyzetesis Associazione filosoficaen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 Realism vs. Equilibrism about Philosophyen_AU
dc.sourceSyzetesisen_AU
dc.subjectrealismoen_AU
dc.subjectmetafilosofiaen_AU
dc.subjectcredenzaen_AU
dc.subjectaccettazioneen_AU
dc.subjectpluralismoen_AU
dc.titleRealism v Equilibrism about Philosophyen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage88en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage67en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationStoljar, Daniel, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidStoljar, Daniel, u8711855en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor500300 - Philosophyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5869122xPUB13en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolumeVIIIen_AU
local.identifier.doi10.53242/syzetesis/4en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://philpapers.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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