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Retrieving realism /

According to Descartes, knowledge exists in the form of ideas in the mind that purportedly represent the world. This "mediational" epistemology--internal ideas mediating external reality--continues to exert a grip on Western thought, and even philosophers such as Quine, Rorty, and Davidson...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Dreyfus, Hubert L. (Author), Taylor, Charles, 1931- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A picture held us captive
  • Escaping the picture
  • Checking beliefs
  • Contact theory: the place of the pre-conceptual
  • Embodied understanding
  • Fusing horizons
  • Realism retrieved
  • Plural realism.