Redder and Realer: Responses to Egan and Tye

I am grateful to Egan and Tye for their thoughtful and challenging criticisms of The Red and the Real (henceforth RR), from which I have learned much. They raise a number of interesting issues, and I am thankful for the opportunity their criticism provides to reconsider some of the key commitments of the book and attempt to clarify my thinking about these matters. While reasons of space prevent me from taking on all of their criticisms, in what follows I’ll respond to what I take to be the most important issues they raise.