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Retrieving Realism ed. by Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor (review)

Retrieving Realism ed. by Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor (review) Book Reviews Retrieving Realism. hubert dreyfus and charles Taylor. cambridge, mA: harvard university Press, 2015. 171 pp. $39.95 cloth. (r eviewed by Andrew grosso, Trinity episcopal cathedral) hubert dreyfus and charles Taylor have produced a thorough, careful, and concise account of cognition and articulation that simultaneously provides ample justification for renewed confidence in our capacity to understand reality, engages many of the central concerns of both analytic and phenomenological philosophy, and helps reconnect the philosophical enterprise to wider social and cultural concerns. The book opens with an exposition of the “mediational” worldview that “influences all our theorizing” about thought and language, a worldview that suggests “we grasp external reality through internal representations” (1–2). The “four interwoven strands” of this worldview include (first) an account of perception and understanding that holds both arise “only through” some form of representation; (second) an understanding of cognition that suggests the mind works with distinct and explicit concepts; (third) a commitment to the idea that the justification of knowledge depends on attending to the distinct, explicit concepts and propositions that populate the mind; and (fourth) the belief that concepts and propositions are ultimately reducible to bodily (and, more specifically, brain) states (10–11). These four http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

Retrieving Realism ed. by Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor (review)

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Book Reviews Retrieving Realism. hubert dreyfus and charles Taylor. cambridge, mA: harvard university Press, 2015. 171 pp. $39.95 cloth. (r eviewed by Andrew grosso, Trinity episcopal cathedral) hubert dreyfus and charles Taylor have produced a thorough, careful, and concise account of cognition and articulation that simultaneously provides ample justification for renewed confidence in our capacity to understand reality, engages many of the central concerns of both analytic and phenomenological philosophy, and helps reconnect the philosophical enterprise to wider social and cultural concerns. The book opens with an exposition of the “mediational” worldview that “influences all our theorizing” about thought and language, a worldview that suggests “we grasp external reality through internal representations” (1–2). The “four interwoven strands” of this worldview include (first) an account of perception and understanding that holds both arise “only through” some form of representation; (second) an understanding of cognition that suggests the mind works with distinct and explicit concepts; (third) a commitment to the idea that the justification of knowledge depends on attending to the distinct, explicit concepts and propositions that populate the mind; and (fourth) the belief that concepts and propositions are ultimately reducible to bodily (and, more specifically, brain) states (10–11). These four

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Jan 3, 2019

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