Jul 7, 2020
22 min read
Finitude Redux
Realism, Antirealism, and Speculative Materialism
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In his masterwork Mind and World, John McDowell came up with a pithy metaphor for the predicament of Modern Philosophy and the problems that flow from the Subject/Object dichotomy: the idea of a sideways-on perspective on reality. In the words of Tim Thornton in his monograph on McDowell:
There is no prospect of adopting a…
