Retrieving Realism / / Charles Taylor, Hubert Dreyfus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Dreyfus, Hubert,; Taylor, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; ONE. A Picture Held Us Captive --; TWO. Escaping the Picture --; THREE. Checking Beliefs --; FOUR. Contact Theory: The Place of the Preconceptual --; FIVE. Embodied Understanding --; SIX. Fusing Horizons --; SEVEN. Realism Retrieved --; EIGHT. Plural Realism --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674287136; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674287136
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Taylor, Hubert Dreyfus.

For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.