Soft facts: Thinking practices and the architecture of reality

Authors

  • Hilan Nissor Bensusan (1) Departamento de Filosofia, Campus Universitário Darcy, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília DF, Brasil
  • Manuel de Pinedo García Departamento de Filosofía I, Facultad de Psicología, Campus de Cartuja, Universidad de Granada Granada, 18011 Granada, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon/163921
Keywords: Objectivity, facts, concepts, rule-following, empiricism

Supporting Agencies

  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Abstract

It is common to criticize the idea of objectivity by claiming that we cannot make sense of any cognitive contact with the world that is not constituted by the very materials of our thinking, and to conclude that the idea must be abandoned and that the world is ‘well lost’. We resist this conclusion and argue for a notion of objectivity that places its source within the domain of thoughts by proposing a conception of facts, akin to McDowell’s, as thinkable while independent of any act of thinking. However, we do so without any empiricist commitment.

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Author Biographies

Hilan Nissor Bensusan, (1) Departamento de Filosofia, Campus Universitário Darcy, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília DF, Brasil

Departamento de Filosofía, Un. de Brasilia

Manuel de Pinedo García, Departamento de Filosofía I, Facultad de Psicología, Campus de Cartuja, Universidad de Granada Granada, 18011 Granada, Spain

Profesor Titular, Dpto. de Filosofía I, Un. de Granada
Published
11-11-2013
How to Cite
Bensusan, H. N., & Pinedo García, M. de. (2013). Soft facts: Thinking practices and the architecture of reality. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (61), 7–21. https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon/163921
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