# Putting Metaphysics First

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- Authors: [Michael Devitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-devitt)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- ISBN: 978-01-9957-697-5
- Pages: 358
- Published: 2010-01-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Michael Devitt presents a series of essays with four recurring themes: (i) a sharp distinction between metaphysical issues and semantic ones; (ii) the priority of metaphysical issues over epistemological and semantic issues; (iii) a naturalistic opposition to the a priori taken largely from Quine; (iv) an uncompromising 'realism about the external world'. Topics include Plato's 'one over many' problem; nonfactualism; truth; moral realism; biological realism; biological essentialism; intuitions and their proper role.