Coming to Grips with Realism |
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Authors: | Tracy Llanera |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Retrieving Realism renders the joint philosophical goals of Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor into what is probably their final and most concise form. It has two main objectives: first, it aims to deconstruct the mediationalism that undergirds Western philosophy, and second, it endorses contact theory, or embodied/embedded coping, as an alternative. In this essay, I present the book’s most salient themes and reveal areas that are ripe for further philosophical consideration. I also direct the reader to the work’s genuine ontological challenge: how to come to grips with contact theory beyond the borders of epistemology. |
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Keywords: | Dreyfus Taylor realism mediationalism contact theory |
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