Realism without representationalism
Rydenfelt, Henrik (2019-05-22)
Rydenfelt, H. Realism without representationalism. Synthese 198, 2901–2918 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02251-4
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Abstract
Scientific realism is a critical target of anti-representationalists such as Richard Rorty and Huw Price, who have questioned the very possibility of providing a satisfactory argument for realism or any other ontological position. I will argue that there is a viable form of realism which not only withstands this criticism but is vindicated on the antirepresentationalists’ own grounds. This realist position, largely drawn from the notion of the scientific method developed by the founder of philosophical pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce, will further be compared with the accounts of truth and objectivity proposed by the contemporary pragmatists, Rorty, Price, and Robert B. Brandom.
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