Sreekumar Jayadevan

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
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    Being and Describing: An Entity Realist Appraisal of Internal Realism
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 34 (1): 151-160. 2017.
    Hilary Putnam’s later works capture a dissent from the idea that descriptions ‘map’ an ontology of the mind-independent world. He argues that descriptions ‘project’ an ontology onto the world. However, it is evident from his arguments that he is not against endorsing existential claims about the world. He agrees that the world and entities exist. But, when we attempt to know ‘what exists,’ we use language and consequently compromise the ‘real’ as it is in itself. One can see, in a certain sense,…Read more