Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique by Richard Sebold

By Richard Sebold
Sebold outlines the explanations why realism is enhanced to anti-realism and indicates how Continental philosophical arguments opposed to realism fail. targeting the paintings of 4 very important philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl, all of who've had a profound impression on more moderen thinkers, he presents alternative routes of studying their it seems that anti-realist sentiments and demonstrates that the insights of those Continental philosophers are however priceless, regardless of their troublesome metaphysical beliefs.
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