Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 26 No. 1, 2011.
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
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72498
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Publication date:
23.8.2011.
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