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Anthropocentrism in Philosophy
Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism
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Panayot Butchvarov
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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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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Panayot Butchvarov, University of Iowa, USA.
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Contents
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Chapter One. Introduction
1 - Part One. Epistemology and Ethics Dehumanized
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Chapter Two. Three Varieties of Epistemology
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Chapter Three. The Property Good
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Chapter Four. Saying and Showing The Good
66 - Part Two. Metaphysics Humanized
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Chapter Five. The Role of Language in Cognition
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Chapter Six. Metaphysical Realism and Logical Antirealism
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Chapter Seven. Logical Semirealism
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Chapter Eight. Generic Statements
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Chapter Nine. Facts and Truth
169 - Part Three. Metaphysics Dehumanized
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Chapter Ten. I and the World
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Chapter Eleven. We and the World
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Chapter Twelve. Mind and the World
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 19, 2015
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9781614518495
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April 24, 2015
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9781614517924
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