Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Tag: antirealism

  • The Paradox of Antirealism and Butchvarov’s Solution

    In his highly  original Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism (Walter de Gruyter 2015)  Panayot Butchvarov argues that philosophy in its three main branches, epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics, needs to be freed from its anthropocentrism. Philosophy ought to be “dehumanized.” This entry will examine how Butchvarov proposes to dehumanize metaphysics.  These Butchvarov posts are exercises toward…