ABSTRACT
What Collier puts forward in In Defence of Objectivity is an erudite and most welcome defence of philosophical realism against postmodernism and various other forms of subjectivism which deny the existence of an objective reality outside of our thoughts, ideas, conceptions, and theories. One of the many strengths of the book is its intensely focused attempt to present a unified argument; a refreshing change from the type of book that assumes that there is no coherence in the world and all one can do is comment on small parts. The resulting clarity of In Defence of Objectivity is reinforced by the felicitous use of examples and at times the illuminating placement of the ideas in a historical context. I find that Collier has made a convincing defence of realism. The comments that follow are divided into three sections.
