Abstract
Among many other things, Margolis’ new book, Pragmatism Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, A Touch of Prophecy, is a successful attempt to articulate in a thoroughly naturalistic way the fundamental tenet of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy – that is, the idea that idealism and realism are not two alternative metaphysical options, but rather two ways of dealing with the very same thing, the concrete experience that human beings have of their world. One of the most characteristic errors of tra...
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
Reality and concept are semantic notions, and the idealism that stems from the adoption of the constructivist viewpoint – pace Margolis – is a critical idealism that inquires into the conditions of possibility of the meaningfulness of the human world
It is rather surprising that Margolis does not see that the semantic thesis that human beings construct their objects in conformity to the rules involved in their concepts does not seem to support the metaphysical conclusion that human beings constitute what is empirically real
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy Electronic reference Roberto Gronda, « Nature and Thought », European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy [Online], IV-2 | 2012, Online since 24 December 2012, connection on 21 April 2019.
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