Austere Realism paper edition

Terry Horgan and Matjaz Potrc book Austere Realism will be shortly published in Europe as well, as the MIT Press European Office lets us know. Publishing date is officially September 2009. 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-51333-3

Representation and Mind series. A Bradford Book.

14.40 Euros paper

"The authors of Austere Realism describe and defend a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position, asserting that the right ontology is minimal or austere, in that it excludes numerous commonsense posits, and that statements employing such posits are nonetheless true, when truth is understood to be semantic correctness under contextually operative semantic standards. Terence Horgan and Matjaz Potrc argue that austere realism emerges naturally from consideration of the deep problems within the naive commonsense approach to truth and ontology."

Authors are depicted here in Ljubljana in late May 2009.

Looks as if some AR centered conference or discussion is needed.

Here is a link to some discussion that already took place:

http://rationalhunter.typepad.com/close_range/2008/09/why-must-the-co.html?cid=6a00d834530a8b69e20120a54ef679970c

Experimental site link

Here is the link to my new experimental site:

http://sites.google.com/site/matjazpotrc/

The site is experimental because main task is to get acquainted with how it functions. Some fragmentary work in progress notes are posted. Critical remarks are encouraged.

My next plan is to prepare two lectures for October visit to Urbino University, and namely on Epistemic Relevance of Morphological Content, and on Vague Content in Non-Vague World.

The picture was shot in Denver in August.