Retrieving Realism / / 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (170 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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