Unshadowed Anti-Realism

Abstract

Charles Travis has claimed that the moral of much of Wittgenstein's philosophy of
language is that there are no shadows, ways of representing "which
determine [...] all that is determined as to when what so represented would
be true (or false)'' (Travis 2008, pp.147-8). Travis takes this to
undermine another influential reading of Wittgenstein's work, Michael Dummett's
revisionist anti¬realism. This paper argues that, on the contrary, even given
the impossibility of shadows, revisionist anti-realism is still a live
option.