Open AccessBook
Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors present a realist ontology based on the concept of fields of sense, which is an ontology-based approach to the meaning of "being" and how it relates to the totality of what there is.Abstract:
Presents a new realist ontology based on the concept of fields of sense. Markus Gabriel presents us with an innovative answer to one of the central questions of philosophy: what is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is? This ontology hinges on Gabriel's concept of fields of sense, which shows that he fundamentally opposes the idea that mathematics or the natural sciences could ever replace a richer philosophical understanding of what there is and how we know about it. The first contribution to a speculative epistemology on the basis of an ontology first method and develops a new realist ontology as well as outlining a realist epistemology grounded in ontology.read more
Citations
More filters
Dissertation
Back to the great outdoors? : a Kantian reply to Meillassoux's argument
TL;DR: The authors argue that Meillassoux's argument is predicated on what Kant refers to as transcendental error, the upshot of which is a tacit adherence to dogmatism and the generation of antinomies.
Journal ArticleDOI
What Kind of an Idealist (If Any) Is Hegel
TL;DR: In particular, the authors argues that the latter does not share the defining features of what is now commonly called idealism, as Hegel neither denies the existence of an external world nor even holds that we can only somehow indirectly infer the truth of propositions about the external world from the structure of some given mental material.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Only Exit From Modern Philosophy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the central principle of modern philosophy is obscured by a side-debate between two opposed camps that are united in accepting a deeper flawed premise: the notion that "thought" and "world" are the two major poles of the universe.
Dissertation
Scientific realism and phenomenology through the case study of autism
TL;DR: The authors proposed a reframing of the analytic scientific realism debate via the phenomenological concept of the life-world, and argued that the best construal of the observables is the lifeworld (Edmund Husserl's lebenswelt) from continental phenomenology.
Journal ArticleDOI
Defending Nietzsche's Constructivism about Objects
TL;DR: The authors provides a new reconstruction of Nietzsche's argument for constructivism and responds to five pressing objections to reading Nietzsche as a constructivist that have not been addressed by commentators defending constructivist interpretations of Nietzsche.