Rethinking the Human Condition: Skepticism, Realism, and Transactional Pragmatism.
For several decades, renewed interest in the connection between perception and knowledge has sustained a robust debate over external world skepticism (EWS). Recently, however, a growing consensus claims the skeptical challenge has been substantially met, and that realism in some robust form has emer...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 263 - 298 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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| Sumario: | For several decades, renewed interest in the connection between perception and knowledge has sustained a robust debate over external world skepticism (EWS). Recently, however, a growing consensus claims the skeptical challenge has been substantially met, and that realism in some robust form has emerged a clear victor. I invite us to rethink this consensus in a two-part response. The first forges a temporary alliance with skepticism against prominent forms of contemporary realism. That these fail to rebuff ews bolsters Barry Stroud's call for a new paradigm of objectivity. In the second part I sketch such a paradigm based upon a transactional interpretation of John Dewey's pragmatism, and indicate its resilience to skeptical attacks. |
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