Metaphysics, Realism, Philosophy of Science - General & Miscellaneous, Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous, Science, Philosophy of
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Overview
In this eloquent and original book, Edward Pols challenges the linguistic consensus that has dominated Anglo-American philosophy in this century. Against the consensus assumption that the only reality question is about the relation between language and the real, he argues that philosophy is about the world and not merely about the propositional structures we use to interpret the world. The heart of his "radical realism" is that the relation between the knower and the real is prior to the relation between language and the real, and that in this prior relation we are capable of knowing directly a reality independent of the human mind.Book Details
Published
May 1, 1992
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Pages
221
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801427107