Research Catalog

Title

Radical realism : direct knowing in science and philosophy / Edward Pols.

Author

Pols, Edward.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

xi, 221 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Realism
• Science > Philosophy
• Common sense
• First philosophy
• Metaphysics
• metaphysics
• 08.31 metaphysics
• 08.32 epistemology
• Common sense
• First philosophy
• Realism
• Science > Philosophy
• Erkenntnistheorie
• Realismus Philosophie
• Realisme (filosofie)
• Realismus (Philosophie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- A preliminary look at the scandal of radical realism: Direct and indirect knowledge -- Contemporary objections to the distinction between direct and indirect knowing -- The oscillatory relativism of the linguistic consensus -- A negative and a positive purpose -- 2. The scandal of radical realism -- The reality question: A question in first philosophy -- First philosophy and the questioning of our rational birthright -- Radical realism: The cultivation of rational awareness -- Rational awareness of the relation between reality and the propositional -- Dismissing the foundation metaphor -- 3. The linguistic consensus -- The conflation of language and theory -- Seven dogmas of the linguistic consensus -- Two consensus half-truths about science -- Intimations of the directness of rational awareness -- 4. Realism versus antirealism: The venue of the linguistic consensus -- The epistemic triad and a dominant question about it -- A question once asked within the consensus: What is experience really? -- The consensus view of the relations between the members of the epistemic triad -- Consensus realists as internal-to-the-language realists -- Consensus antirealists as pseudo-Kantians -- Why antirealist relativism creates no problem for science but many problems for other fields -- 5. Radical realism: The venue of direct knowing -- Two functions of rationality: The function of rational awareness and the formative function -- The primary mode of the function of rational awareness -- Three scandals that hinder recognition of primary rational awareness -- The secondary mode of the function of rational awareness -- Rational-experiential satisfaction and the natural re-flexivity of rational awareness -- Dependence of the formative function on the function of rational awareness -- Indirect knowledge and the formative function -- 6. Nine theses about science, common sense, and first philosophy -- Introduction -- The nine theses -- 7. First philosophy and the reflexivity of direct knowing -- "The science we are seeking": Bringing first philosophy into being -- Two substantive tasks of first philosophy: Knowing causality and primary beings directly -- The unity of the two tasks: The causality of primary beings -- The exemplification, in rational awareness itself, of its own findings in first philosophy -- The reflexiveness of rational awareness and the movement from primary beings to being.

ISBN

• 080142710X
• 9780801427107

LCCN

91055531

OCLC

• ocm24539256
• 24539256
• SCSB-1946702

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library