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...
| Published in: | Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 263 - 298 |
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2016
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