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Ontological disunity and a realism worth having

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Steve Clarke
Steve Clarke*
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University; Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/cappe/people/clarst/clarst.htm
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stephen.clarke@anu.edu.au
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Ross & Spurrett (R&S) appear convinced that the world must have a unified ontological structure. This conviction is difficult to reconcile with a commitment to mainstream realism, which involves allowing that the world may be ontologically disunified. R&S should follow Kitcher by weakening their conception of unification so as to allow for the possibility of ontological disunity.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004, pp. 628 - 629
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004