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Embodied Critical Realism
Author(s) -
Schilbrack Kevin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12050
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , realism , critical realism (philosophy of perception) , relativism , epistemology , philosophy , direct and indirect realism , philosophical realism , order (exchange) , aesthetics , finance , economics
C hristian S mith's W hat Is a P erson? provides an account of the person from the perceptive of critical realism. As a fellow critical realist, I support that philosophical position and in this response I seek to support it by connecting it to the embodied realism developed by G eorge L akoff and M ark J ohnson. In order to bring the two forms of realism together, I critique both the relativism of embodied realism and the idea, found in Smith, that the person's awareness of the world is mediated by her experience. The goal of this paper, then, is an embodied critical realism, a more coherent realist position that combines the best parts of each.