Coming to Grips with Realism. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Llanera, Tracy
• Is Part Of: Critical horizons. Volume 18:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 281
• Page End: 288
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Dreyfus -- Taylor -- realism -- mediationalism -- contact theory; Critical theory -- Periodicals; 142.05
• DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2017.1293901
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1440-9917

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Retrieving Realism renders the joint philosophical goals of Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor into what is probably their final and most concise form. It has two main objectives: first, it aims to deconstruct the mediationalism that undergirds Western philosophy, and second, it endorses contact theory, or embodied/embedded coping, as an alternative . In this essay, I present the book's most salient themes and reveal areas that are ripe for further philosophical consideration. I also direct the reader to the work's genuine ontological challenge: how to come to grips with contact theory beyond the borders of epistemology.