a mildly erroneous passage in the Speculative Realism Wikipedia article

Just noticed this, which of course I can’t go in and change:

“Lee Braver’s A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism, credited by Harman as one of the catalysts for his own theory, demonstrates in considerable detail that both Analytic and Continental philosophy have been anti-realist.”

Though I’m sure this is well-meaning, it contains two errors.

1. Braver’s book is a very good one, but in no way was it one of the catalysts of my theory. Consider the chronology. Braver’s book was published in 2007 (I read it in 2008– in March or April, not sure which without checking my records). By that time I was already the author of three books in which the basic features of my philosophical position are stated quite clearly, and moreover, speculative realism was launched before I had even heard of Lee Braver. His book did a lot to clarify the situation in continental philosophy, but had no impact on my theory except as an interesting new alternative with which to contrast my own position.

2. As for the claim that Braver’s book “demonstrates in considerable detail that both Analytic and Continental philosophy have been anti-realist,” this is inaccurate. Braver does this only for continental philosophy. He never states that analytic philosophy has been essentially anti-realist, which would be an obviously false claim. He does show that some analytic philosophers dovetail nicely with continental anti-realism (most notably Davidson), but his sweeping anti-realist claim is made only about continental philosophy.