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The Agnostic Stance is a sustained defence of agnosticism as a serious alternative to both metaphysical realism and anti-realism. Metaphysical realists and anti-realists give competing answers to the question of whether truth and reality transcend what we can know or think. The agnostic, by contrast, denies that we are in a position to know how to answer this question. First it is shown how this epistemic reservation can be understood to involve more than merely a temporary suspension of judgement, without thereby collapsing into a form of scepticism inconsistent with the possibility of future knowledge. Then it is argued in detail that agnosticism, as thus understood, fares much better than its realist and anti-realist competitors when it comes to the question about the limits of our thought and knowledge. In pursuing this aim, The Agnostic Stance covers a wide range of topics in general epistemology, the metaphysics of mind and the philosophy of logic and Language. Sven Rosenkranz, geb. 1969, Studium der Philosophie und deutschen Literatur und Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Göttingen, 1999 Promotion. Von 2000 bis 2005 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Philosophie der Freien Universität Berlin, seit 2003 Associate Research Fellow am Arché ARHC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind, University of St. Andrews. 2004 Habilitation, 2005 Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und seit 2006 Associate Research Fellow der Logos Grup de Recerca en Lògica, Llenguatge i Cognició, Universitat de Barcelona. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Erkenntnistheorie, Sprachphilosophie und Philosophie der Logik
