In Defence of Realism and Truth

Critical reflections on the anthropological followers of Heidegger

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ID2361671
AuthorsBrian Morris (0000-0003-4439-0795, Goldsmiths College, London, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume17
Issue3
Pages313-340
Publication date1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0308275x9701700306
OpenAlexW2021264771
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited46

■ This article offers a critique of postmodernism, and the rather nihilis tic ethos that some of its advocates suggest. It thus seeks to affirm the salience of a realist metaphysic, and argues for the crucial importance of such conceptions as truth as representation, human agency and empirical science. It suggests the continuing need in anthropology to combine empirical science (naturalism) and hermeneutics (humanism), thus avoiding both positivism, which repudiates hermeneutics and tends towards a reductive materialism, and textualism, which repudiates empirical social science entirely

Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethos · Hermeneutics · Humanism · Materialism · Metaphysics · Naturalism · Positivism · Posthumanism · Postmodernism · Realism · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Science and Policy Research

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