According to Ian Hacking’s Entity Realism, unobservable entities that scientists carefully manipulate to study other phenomena are real. Although Hacking presents his case in an intuitive, attractive, and persuasive way, his argument remains elusive. I present five possible readings of Hacking’s argument: a no‐miracle argument, an indispensability argument, a transcendental argument, a Vichian ...

the Real or One – rather than to abstraction. The One is an abstract-without-an operation-of-abstraction, abstraction follows after and is imposed upon thought, as its form, by the Real. 4. I lay claim to theory, but I understand it in terms of the radical identity of science and philosophy, which is to say, the radical identity of the two aspects: knowledge on the one hand, and a transcendenta...

Contents 1. Introduction 426 2. G ¨ odel's position in the 1950's—a stalemate 428 2.1. Inconclusive arguments 428 2.2. Realism and rationalism 430 2.3. Epistemological parity 434 2.4. A way out? 437 3. G ¨ odel's turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 439 3.1. Varieties of idealism 439 3.2. G ¨ odel and German Idealism 440 3.3. The turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 443 3.4. G ¨ odel'...

My purpose in this paper is to show that the two major options on which the current debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics relies, namely realism and empiricism (or instrumentalism), are far from being exhaustive. There is at least one more position available; a position which has been widely known in the history of philosophy during the past two centuries but which, in spite of some...

At the tum of the present century one problem, the so-called problem of the existence of the world, lay at the center of philosophical argument. The dominance of those who took the idealist side in this dispute, both in Germany and in England, was then rapidly being brought to an end with the works of Brentano, Meinong, Frege, Moore, and Russell, all of whom can be seen as having expressed, in ...

According to R. Hanna, absolute systems, like Fichte and Hegel’s can be logically truly possible only if they neglect any ontological status extern reality. Although Hanna’s thesis seems correct concerning philosophy, Fichte’s idealism cannot classified as Hanna suggests. Rather, develops, it will shown, what calls a realist idealism, i.e. transcendental compatible with realism.

Abstract In Scientific Ontology , Chakravartty diagnoses a “dramatic conflict” between empiricism and metaphysics aims to overcome that conflict by opting for modern-day variant of Pyrrhonism, i.e. appreciating the equal strength ( isostheneia ) arguments against empiricist metaphysical positions, achieving tranquility ataraxia suspending judgment or remaining speechless in face . this paper, I...