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Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism

By Panayot Butchvarov

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
9781614518495, 9781614517924
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1337374 bytes)
Series
Eide; 8
Pages
254\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-29 13:35:45

Description

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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