Retrieving Realism
2015 āļ´āˇāˇāˇāļąāˇ ¡ Harvard University Press
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âCompact and engaging, Retrieving Realism is more approachable than its weighty subject matter might predict...[An] adventurous combination of arguments and mixing of philosophical cultures.â âBoston Review
âA picture held us captive,â writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, describing the powerful image of mind that underlies the modern epistemological tradition from Descartes onward. Retrieving Realism offers a radical critique of the Cartesian epistemic picture that has captivated philosophy for too long and restores a realist view affirming our direct access to the everyday world and to the physical universe.
According to Descartes, knowledge exists in the form of ideas in the mind that purportedly represent the world. This âmediationalâ epistemologyâinternal ideas mediating external realityâcontinues to exert a grip on Western thought, and even philosophers such as Quine, Rorty, and Davidson who have claimed to refute Descartes remain imprisoned within its regime. As Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor show, knowledge consists of much more than the explicit representations we formulate. We gain knowledge of the world through bodily engagement with itâby handling things, moving among them, responding to themâand these forms of knowing cannot be understood in mediational terms. Dreyfus and Taylor also contest Descartesâs privileging of the individual mind, arguing that much of our understanding of the world is necessarily shared.
Once we deconstruct Cartesian mediationalism, the problems that Hume, Kant, and many of our contemporaries still struggle withâtrying to prove the existence of objects beyond our representationsâfall away, as does the motivation for nonrealist doctrines. We can then begin to describe the background everyday world we are absorbed in and the universe of natural kinds discovered by science.
âA picture held us captive,â writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, describing the powerful image of mind that underlies the modern epistemological tradition from Descartes onward. Retrieving Realism offers a radical critique of the Cartesian epistemic picture that has captivated philosophy for too long and restores a realist view affirming our direct access to the everyday world and to the physical universe.
According to Descartes, knowledge exists in the form of ideas in the mind that purportedly represent the world. This âmediationalâ epistemologyâinternal ideas mediating external realityâcontinues to exert a grip on Western thought, and even philosophers such as Quine, Rorty, and Davidson who have claimed to refute Descartes remain imprisoned within its regime. As Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor show, knowledge consists of much more than the explicit representations we formulate. We gain knowledge of the world through bodily engagement with itâby handling things, moving among them, responding to themâand these forms of knowing cannot be understood in mediational terms. Dreyfus and Taylor also contest Descartesâs privileging of the individual mind, arguing that much of our understanding of the world is necessarily shared.
Once we deconstruct Cartesian mediationalism, the problems that Hume, Kant, and many of our contemporaries still struggle withâtrying to prove the existence of objects beyond our representationsâfall away, as does the motivation for nonrealist doctrines. We can then begin to describe the background everyday world we are absorbed in and the universe of natural kinds discovered by science.
âCompact and engaging, Retrieving Realism is more approachable than its weighty subject matter might predict...[An] adventurous combination of arguments and mixing of philosophical cultures.â âBoston Review
âA picture held us captive,â writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, des...
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Hubert Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal, Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age, he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.
Hubert Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal, Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age, he has receiv...
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