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Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism

By Panayot Butchvarov

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
1614517924, 9781614517924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1403513 bytes)
Series
Eide 8
Pages
246\250
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Philosophy
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no
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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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