After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism Rockmore Tom
After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism Rockmore Tom Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems--the relationship between thought and being--and offers a fresh…
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After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism Rockmore Tom
Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems--the relationship between thought and being--and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of philosophy when Parmenides asserted that thought and being are one: what we know is what is. To counter this, Rockmore argues that we need to give up on the idea of this real, and instead focus on the objects of cognition that our mind constructs. This idea created a division between what the mind constructs as knowable entities and the idea that there is also a mind-independent real, which we can know or fail to know.
If we construct the object we seek to know, then it corresponds to what Though we cannot know mind-independent objects as they "really" are, we can and do know objects as they appear to us.
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