One World and Our Knowledge of It The Problematic of Realism in Post
Philosophy, Aristotle is well known to have said, begins in wonder. So, of course, does everything else. Astronomy begins in wonder at the moving lights in the sky; biology, in wonder at the living creatures of the earth; psychology, in wonder at the intr
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY Editors: WILFRID SELLARS, University ofPittsburgh KEITH LEHRER, University of Arizona
Board of Consulting Editors: JONATHAN BENNETT, Syracuse University ALLAN GIBBARD, University of Michigan ROBERT STALNAKER, Cornell University ROBERT G. TURNBULL, Ohio State University
VOLUME 23
JAY F. ROSENBERG University of North Carolina, Dept. of Philosophy
ONE WORLD AND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF IT The Problematic of Realism in Post-Kantian Perspective
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Rosenberg, Jay F. One world and our knowledge ofit. (Philosophical studies series in philosophy; v. 23) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Realism. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Title. 80-20437 B835.R67 121 ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-9055-5 e-ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-9053-1 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-9053-1
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His father was a blacksmith and hers a shopkeeper. Both had come from Hungary in the early years of the century and had settled in Chicago, where opportunity promised. Although his heart was never fully in it, he took his degree in business, for there was a Depression and then there was a war. For forty years he served with dignity and with skill as an executive of a corporation, the prospering of which was due in no small measure to his contributions to it. S~e never made for herself a career beyond that of wife and mother, but in those capacities she served with equal dignity and skill, and with patience and with an unchecked liveliness of mind and diversity of interest. They met and married late, but well, and, in the course of time, they had two sons. Both are university faculty. The younger became an art historian; the older, a philosopher - and w:rote this book. They're a little puzzled by it all, but they delight in their grandchildren. And, as for their sons - "Well, as long as they're happy . .. ", they say. This one is for Mom and Dad.
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I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come round from its opinion - George Eliot Middlemarch
Why, very well then: I hope here be truths. - Shakespeare Measure for Measure
