Idealism, Relativism, and Realism

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Idealism, Relativism, and Realism

New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide

Edited by: Dominik Finkelde and Paul M. Livingston

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670349

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Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism – known under titles such as "New Realism," "Continental Realism," or "Speculative Materialism" – have shown that science is not systematically the ultimate measure of truth and reality. This does not mean that we should abandon the notions of truth or objectivity all together, as has been posited repeatedly within certain currents of twentieth century philosophy. However, within the research field of contemporary realism, the concept of objectivity itself has not been adequately refined. What is objective is supposed to be true outside a subject’s biases, interpretations and opinions, having truth conditions that are met by the way the world is. The volume combines articles of internationally outstanding authors who have published on either Idealism, Epistemic Relativism, or Realism and often locate themselves within one of these divergent schools of thought. As such, the volume focuses on these traditions with the aim of clarifying what the concept objectivity nowadays stands for within contemporary ontology and epistemology beyond the analytic-continental divide.

With articles from: Jocelyn Benoist, Ray Brassier, G. Anthony Bruno, Dominik Finkelde, Markus Gabriel, Deborah Goldgaber, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, Johannes Hübner, Andrea Kern, Anton F. Koch, Martin Kusch, Paul M. Livingston, Paul Redding, Sebastian Rödl, Dieter Sturma.

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Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany; Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Accessible Download PDF	V
Introduction Dominik Finkelde and Paul Livingston Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Part 1 Idealism
Metaphysics, Thinking, and Being Sebastian Rödl Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	17
Jacobi’s Dare: McDowell, Meillassoux, and Consistent Idealism G. Anthony Bruno Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	35
How Not to Be a Naïve Realist: On Knowledge and Perception Andrea Kern Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	57
Is Hermeneutic Realism a Dialectical Materialism? Anton Friedrich Koch Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	81
Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism Iain Hamilton Grant Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	97
Part 2 Relativism
Metaontological Deflationism and Ontological Realism Johannes Hübner Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	115
Stances, Voluntarism, Relativism Martin Kusch Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	131
Subjectivity as a Feature of Reality: On Diffraction Laws of Consciousness and Reality Within Justified True Belief Dominik Finkelde Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	155
Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Act: Marx, Materialism, and the Exchange Abstraction Ray Brassier Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	175
Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body Deborah Goldgaber Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	193
Part 3 Realism
Saying What is Not Markus Gabriel Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	217
Sense, Realism, and Ontological Difference Paul Livingston Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	233
Realism without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option Graham Harman Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	257
The Objectivity of the Actual: Hegelianism as a Metaphysics of Modal Actualism Paul Redding Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	275
Nomological Realism Dieter Sturma Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	293
Realism Without Entities Jocelyn Benoist Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	311
Notes on the contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	325
Index of Names Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	329
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	333

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 334
Keywords: New Realism; knowledge; objectivity; warrant for belief; testimony; subjectivity

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Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9783110670349

Hardcover

Published: April 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110666823