The Real World Regained? Searle’s External Realism Examined

Abstract: In Mind, Language, and Society: Philosophyin the Real World, John Searle presents an uncompromising apologia for realism which is distinguished both by its lucidity and by its vigour. His basic strategy is to show that realists have at their disposal the resources needed to refute skeptics who allege that a mind-independent world is unknowable. In this paper, I reconstruct Searle´s principal pro-realist argument (Section 3), then argue that it is vitiated by its reliance on two unwarranted assumptions (Sections 4-6). First, however, I summarize the position- “external realism”-Searle defends (Section 2)

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: The Real World Regained? Searle’s External Realism Examined ; volume:1 ; number:18 ; year:2004 ; pages:1-9 ; extent:9 ; Kriterion ; 1, Heft 18 (2004), 1-9 (gesamt 9)

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• Creator: McDermid, Douglas

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• DOI: 10.1515/krt-2004-011803
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022090314462168776919
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.