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Conceptual Realism
From the conclusion:
"Throughout our discussions, we have aimed at outlining the Aristotelian picture and the view of reality to which that picture gives rise. The Aristotelian picture portrays reality as at least as complex, multifaceted, and rich as the conceptual resources we employ in our quest to understand it. It is opposed to the Modern picture, which downgrades this complex, multifaceted and rich reality to the status of a mere reality-for-us, and then asks the skeptical question what, if anything, corresponds to an imagined, non-conceptual reality-itself. On the Aristotelian picture there is no such gap to be bridged. Thus, there turns out to be no reason at all to accept the abstract, almost mathematical view on reality of which first-gear metaphysics dreams, or the purely mechanical view on reality which second-gear metaphysicians endorse, or any other metaphysics based on unmotivated conceptual restrictions. The Aristotelian picture takes our quest to understand reality at face value, and thereby reveals what is already open to view: that reality is a place in which we may find ourselves to be at home."
"Throughout our discussions, we have aimed at outlining the Aristotelian picture and the view of reality to which that picture gives rise. The Aristotelian picture portrays reality as at least as complex, multifaceted, and rich as the conceptual resources we employ in our quest to understand it. It is opposed to the Modern picture, which downgrades this complex, multifaceted and rich reality to the status of a mere reality-for-us, and then asks the skeptical question what, if anything, corresponds to an imagined, non-conceptual reality-itself. On the Aristotelian picture there is no such gap to be bridged. Thus, there turns out to be no reason at all to accept the abstract, almost mathematical view on reality of which first-gear metaphysics dreams, or the purely mechanical view on reality which second-gear metaphysicians endorse, or any other metaphysics based on unmotivated conceptual restrictions. The Aristotelian picture takes our quest to understand reality at face value, and thereby reveals what is already open to view: that reality is a place in which we may find ourselves to be at home."
382 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2014
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