Preface

Introduction

I. BASIC ISSUES FOR REALISM AND ANTIREALISM

Realism, Antirealism, and Common Sense

Caleb Miller

Realism and Irrealism: A Dialogue

Mark S. McLeod

Dividing the World into Objects

Andrew Cortens

Pluralism, Metaphysical Realism, and Ultimate Reality

Michael P. Lynch

The God's I Point of View

Michael J. Murray

What Metaphysical Realism Is Not

William P. Alston

II. TRUTH AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM

On the Metaphysical Implications of Alethic Realism

Rene van Woudenberg

Why God Is Not a Semantic Realist

David Leech Anderson

III. REALISM AND EPISTEMOLOGY

Cooperative, Coordinative, and Coercive Epistemologies

Christopher Tollefsen

``In Your Light, We See Light'': The Continuing Viability of a Christocentric Epistemology

Laura A. Smit

IV. DEPARTMENTAL REALISMS AND ANTIREALISMS

A. Religion

Thomism with a Realist Face: A Response to Hilary Putnam

Gavin T. Colvert

Realist Reference to God: Analogy or Univocity?

Philip A. Rolnick

B. Science and Religion

Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricist Philosophy of Science and Religious Belief: Prospects for a Unified Epistemology

Anne L. Hiskes

C. Literature and Morality

Truth in Fiction: The Whole Story

Frances Howard-Snyder

Fiction as a Kind of Philosophy

Kelly James Clark

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About the Contributors

Index