Radical Realism : : Direct Knowledge in Science and Philosophy / / Edward Pols.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pols, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Scandal of Radical Realism --; 3. The Linguistic Consensus --; 4. Realism versus Antirealism: The Venue of the Linguis tic Consensus --; 5. Radical Realism: The Venue of Direct Knowing --; 6. Nine Theses about Science, Common Sense, and First Philosophy --; 7. First Philosophy and the Reflexivity of Direct Knowing --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501737534; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501737534
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edward Pols.

In this eloquent and original book, Edward Pols challenges the linguistic consensus that has dominated Anglo-American philosophy in this century. Against the consensus assumption that the only reality question is about the relation between language and the real, he argues that philosophy is about the world and not merely about the propositional structures we use to interpret the world. The heart of his "radical realism" is that the relation between the knower and the real is prior to the relation between language and the real, and that in this prior relation we are capable of knowing directly a reality independent of the human mind.