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Starmaking brings together a cluster of work published over the past 35 years by Nelson Goodman and two Harvard colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism -- issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology.

The title alludes to Goodman's famous defense of the claim that because all true representations of stars and other objects are human creations, it follows that in an important sense the stars themselves are made by us. More generally, the argument moves from the fact that our right representations are constructed by us to the claim that the world itself is similarly constructed.

Starmaking addresses the question of whether this seeming paradox can be turned into a serious philosophical view. Goodman and Putnam are sympathetic; Scheffler is the critic.

Although many others continue to write about pluralism, relativism, and constructionalism, Starmaking brings together the protagonists in the debate since its beginnings and follows closely its still developing form and substance, focusing sharply on Goodman's claim that "we make versions, and right versions make worlds."

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Starmaking presents a cluster of work published over the last thirty-five years by Nelson Goodman, two Harvard Colleagues, Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler, and C.G. Hempel, on the conceptual connections between monism and pluralism, absolutism and relativism, and idealism and different notions of realism--issues that are central to metaphysics and epistemology.
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Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi is Professor of Physiology in the Medical School at Northwestern University, with joint appointments in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Biomedical Engineering. He is also Founder and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

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  • PublisherMIT Press
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0262529149
  • ISBN 13 9780262529143
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
  • EditorMcCormick Peter J.

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