Chasing Reality: Strife over Realism

by Mario Bunge

Book Overview

Chasing Reality deals with the controversies over the reality of the external world. Distinguished philosopher Mario Bunge offers an extended defence of realism, a critique of various forms of contemporary anti-realism, and a sketch of his own version of realism, namely hylorealism. Bunge examines the main varieties of antirealism - Berkeley's, Hume's, and Kant's; positivism, phenomenology, and constructivism - and argues that all of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628227
• ISBN13: 9781442628229
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"