Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781614517924)

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.

Author: Panayot Butchvarov
ISBN-10: 1614517924
ISBN-13: 9781614517924
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2015
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.70d