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Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism

Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism

Hardcover

Series: Eide, Book 8

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1614517924
ISBN13: 9781614517924
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Apr 24 2015
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical. Ethics investigates the human good, epistemology investigates human knowledge, and antirealist metaphysics holds that the world depends on our cognitive capacities. But humans' good and knowledge, including their language and concepts, are empirical matters, whereas philosophers do not engage in empirical research. And humans are inhabitants, not 'makers', of the world. Nevertheless, all three (ethics, epistemology, and antirealist metaphysics) can be drastically reinterpreted as making no reference to humans.

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