Hubert Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University.
“A picture held us captive,” writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, describing the powerful image of mind that underlies the modern epistemological tradition from Descartes onward. Retrieving Realism offers a radical critique of the Cartesian epistemic picture that has captivated philosophy for too long and restores a realist view affirming our direct access to the everyday world and to the physical universe.
According to Descartes, knowledge exists in the form of ideas in the mind that purportedly represent the world. This “mediational” epistemology—internal ideas mediating external reality—continues to exert a grip on Western thought, and even philosophers such as Quine, Rorty, and Davidson who have claimed to refute Descartes remain imprisoned within its regime. As Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor show, knowledge consists of much more than the explicit representations we formulate. We gain knowledge of the world through bodily engagement with it—by handling things, moving among them, responding to them—and these forms of knowing cannot be understood in mediational terms. Dreyfus and Taylor also contest Descartes’s privileging of the individual mind, arguing that much of our understanding of the world is necessarily shared.
Once we deconstruct Cartesian mediationalism, the problems that Hume, Kant, and many of our contemporaries still struggle with—trying to prove the existence of objects beyond our representations—fall away, as does the motivation for nonrealist doctrines. We can then begin to describe the background everyday world we are absorbed in and the universe of natural kinds discovered by science.
發表於2024-12-23
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評分多元強健實在論?既要堅持為現代自然科學(西方所主導)辯護,又要為文化間對話留下餘地,真是為難他們倆瞭。前一個任務是為瞭避免價值相對主義,後一個任務是為瞭擺脫文化霸權主義的嫌疑。總體感覺“多元”的論證是一個已經有很多論證資源可以利用的命題,所以相對於“強健”的論證要更成功。強健的科學觀在他們這本書中的描述還是過於粗糙。
評分多元強健實在論?既要堅持為現代自然科學(西方所主導)辯護,又要為文化間對話留下餘地,真是為難他們倆瞭。前一個任務是為瞭避免價值相對主義,後一個任務是為瞭擺脫文化霸權主義的嫌疑。總體感覺“多元”的論證是一個已經有很多論證資源可以利用的命題,所以相對於“強健”的論證要更成功。強健的科學觀在他們這本書中的描述還是過於粗糙。
評分雖然讀過瞭,但是不知道怎麼評價。這本書裏頭延續瞭太多英語世界從上個世紀70年代開始的對話,羅蒂、麥剋道威爾、戴維森,這些聲音都是我不熟悉或沒有把握的。這樣的書譯齣來有人樂意看嗎?我倒是可以保證翻譯質量
Retrieving Realism 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載