Epistemological realism [ Week 6, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]


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This week’s readings:

  • Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor, ‘Escaping the Picture’ and ‘Checking Beliefs,’ chap. 2 and 3 of Retrieving Realism (Harvard University Press, 2015), doi.org/10.4159/9780674287136.
  • Charles Taylor, ‘Retrieving Realism,’ in Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate, edited by Joseph K. Schear, 68–101 (Routledge, 2013), doi.org/10.4324/9780203076316-6.

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