Original scientific paper

The Contextuality of Scheme-(In)Dependence in Pragmatist Metaphysics

Sami Pihlström ; Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

This paper discusses a modern, especially pragmatist, variant of the Kantian issue of the mind- or scheme-dependence of ontology. It is suggested that the distinction between scheme-dependence and scheme-independence in (pragmatist) transcendental metaphysics is itself contextual, not absolute, and that this contextuality is a “transcendental fact” about our practice-embedded world-constitutive activities.

Keywords

pragmatism; ontology; metaphysics; realism; conceptual schemes; transcendental idealism; contexts; contextualism

Hrčak ID:

72498

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72498

Publication date:

23.8.2011.

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