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Realism, Mind and Evolution[Note 1. Based on the 2012 McMahon Aquinas Lecture given at ...]
Author(s) -
Haldane John
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12015
Subject(s) - viewpoints , naturalism , realism , variety (cybernetics) , epistemology , perception , philosophy , direct and indirect realism , sociology , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , visual arts
Perceptual experience is perspectival, and human minds occupy a variety of “viewpoints.” These considerations provide grounds for both realist and anti‐realist philosophies. Each is represented in adjacent areas of thought, and often connects with familiar debates between “conservatives” and “liberals,” which in turn are commonly related to disputes about religious and naturalistic accounts of the world and of the place of human beings within it. These have been joined from an orthogonal direction by T homas N agel in his recent book M ind and C osmos . This is considered and contrasted with the ideas of Thomas A quinas before returning to the possibility of reconciling perspectivalism with an account of what it could mean to speak of the world as it is in itself.