@article{78d016645ba24060bce5a311788895e3,
title = "How to be an uncompromising revisionary ontologist",
abstract = "Revisionary ontologies seem to go against our common sense convictions about which material objects exist. These views face the so-called Problem of Reasonableness: they have to explain why reasonable people don{\textquoteright}t seem to accept the true ontology. Most approaches to this problem treat the mismatch between the ontological truth and ordinary belief as superficial or not even real. By contrast, I propose what I call the “uncompromising solution”. First, I argue that our beliefs about material objects were influenced by evolutionary forces that were independent of the ontological truth. Second, I draw an analogy between the Problem of Reasonableness and the New Evil Demon Problem and argue that the revisionary ontologist can always find a positive epistemic status to characterize ordinary people{\textquoteright}s beliefs about material objects. Finally, I address the worry that the evolutionary component of my story also threatens to undermine the best arguments for revisionary ontologies.",
keywords = "Debunking, Material objects, New Evil Demon Problem, Nihilism, Organicism, Problem of Reasonableness, Revisionary ontology, Universalism",
author = "Kovacs, {David Mark}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1007/s11229-019-02196-8",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "198",
pages = "2129--2152",
journal = "Synthese",
issn = "0039-7857",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3",
}