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Anti-Representationalism, Realism, and Anti-Realism
ARTL rejects metaphysical realism (MR): it sees Representationalism as integral to this idea, and since Representationalism is incoherent, so is MR....
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Brains in Vats
This chapter is a relatively self-standing essay that takes up how we should best understand the famous ‘brains in vats’ (BIV) thought experiment and...
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Introduction
In this introductory chapter I introduce the idea of anti-representationalism as a counterpoint to the prevailing representationalism of modern and...
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Brandom on Pragmatism
A number of leading philosophers today subscribe to pragmatism in a form or another. “Post-analytic” philosophers such as Hilary Putnam and Richard...
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“Languaged” World, “Worlded” Language: On Margolis’s Pragmatic Integration of Realism and Idealism
Joseph Margolis, who sadly passed away in June 2021, argued for decades, against mainstream forms of realism and antirealism, that the world is...
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General Introduction to the Handbuch Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty is first introduced as both the best known and the most controversial neopragmatist. This introduction then offers a sketch of Rorty’s...
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Not thinking about the same thing. Enactivism, pragmatism and intentionality
Enactivism does not have its primary philosophical roots in pragmatism: phenomenology (from Husserl to Jonas) is its first source of inspiration...
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General Introduction to the Handbuch Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty is first introduced as both the best known and the most controversial neopragmatist. This introduction then offers a sketch of Rorty’s...
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A New Look at Wittgenstein and Pragmatism
Historically, there is presumably relatively little to be added to the already existing scholarship on the relation between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s...
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Some Reflections on Tenability of Pluralism, Transformation and Trivialization of Religions
In this essay, I try to examine a few basic questions about the tenability of any pluralistic viewpoint and further see how most formulations of...
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Revolutionary Language-Game Pragmatism After the Linguistic Turn
This chapter introduces Rorty’s anti-representationalist critique of traditional (linguistic) philosophy as epistemology. It introduces the main...
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Human Minds and Cultures: An Introduction
This thematic volume entitled Human Minds and Cultures deciphers different aspects of human minds and cultures that differ in their methodological...
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Einführung in das Handbuch Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty wird einleitend als zugleich bekanntester und umstrittenster Neopragmatist vorgestellt. Diese Einführung bietet dann den NutzerInnen...
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Worlds Apart: Are We Enclosed Inside Our Heads?
This chapter portrays contemporary cognitive science as divided into two main branches: brain-centered cognitive science and embodied cognition....
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Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Expressivism
The Logic of Philosophy presents a development of historical forms of coherence as they are found in discourse and as they can be logically...
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The Transformative Character of Rorty’s Neopragmatism Exemplified by His Liberal Utopia in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Rorty’s transformative claim to change our self-image and the basic thesis of this essential “Private Romanticism and Public Pragmatism” is made...
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A Roadmap from the Extended Mind to the Extended Conscious Mind
The first chapter provides an overview of the theoretical background of externalism and 4E-theories in present-day philosophy of mind and cognitive...
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The Influence of Quantum Physics on Philosophy
We ponder the question whether quantum physics has had any influence on philosophy, and if not, whether it ought to have had any. Answers to these...
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A Kantian-Rooted Pluralist Realism for Science
After the preeminence of logical positivism/empiricism during the most part of twentieth century, during the last decades many authors began to...