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Ross & Spurrett (R&S) appear convinced that the world must have a unified ontological structure. This conviction is difficult to reconcile with a commitment to mainstream realism, which involves allowing that the world may be ontologically disunified. R&S should follow Kitcher by weakening their conception of unification so as to allow for the possibility of ontological disunity.

Original publication

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X0423014X

Type

Journal article

Journal

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Publication Date

01/10/2004

Volume

27

Pages

628 - 629