Epistemological realism [ Week 6, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
If you wish to attend in person and require access to the upper levels of the Schwarzman Centre, please write stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk.
For general information, please see the series listing.

This week’s readings:


Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor, ‘Checking Beliefs,’ and ‘Contact Theory: The Place of the Preconceptual,’ chap. 3 and 4 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.


For the full programme visit users.ox.ac.uk/~scro3052/phenomenology/programme.pdf.
Date: 21 November 2025, 12:00
Venue: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A
Speaker: Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Organiser contact email address: stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~scro3052
Audience: Public
Editor: Stevan Veljkovic