PHIL 2080 Study Guide - Final Guide: Anti-Realism, Direct And Indirect Realism, Phenomenalism
11 Dec 2014
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Questions: (1) outline plato"s position that true knowledge is acquired not through learning but through recollection. A world exists independently of ourselves, our minds, our ideas, etc. The world is real and external to us. Many philosophers have held this view: e. g. , plato, descartes, Brown, etc. (2) anti-realism: there is no external world. There is no world that exists independently of ourselves, our minds, our ideas, etc. Most anti-realists are what is referred to as idealists" or. Phenomenalists": all that exists are ideas and possibly minds and. There are no embodied persons, material objects or substances. Anti-realism started to become a popular view in the 18th and 19th centuries, and still is quite prevalent to this day. Proponents have included berkeley, russell (at one point) and. Schopenhauer. (3) indirect realism: there is an external world but we only have indirect access to it through our thoughts, ideas, sensations or some such.
