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RETRIEVING REALISM RETRIEVIN G REALIS M ✦ HUBERT DREYFUS CHARLES TAYLOR Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dreyfus, Hubert L. Retrieving realism / Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Taylor. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-96751-9 1. Knowledge, Th eory of. 2. Realism. I. Taylor, Charles, 1931– II. Title. BD161.D74 2015 121—dc23 2014042255 In memory of Samuel Todes Contents Preface ix ONE A Picture Held Us Captive 1 TWO Escaping the Picture 27 THREE Checking Beliefs 55 FOUR Contact Th eory: Th e Place of the Preconceptual 71 FIVE Embodied Understanding 91 SIX Fusing Horizons 102 SEVEN Realism Retrieved 131 EIGHT Plural Realism 148 Index 169 Preface Th is book started when we were together during a three-week study resi- dence in Bellagio, and we want to express our profound gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation for launching us on this path. We want to thank all our discussion partners, mainly the many scholars who were involved in the Dreyfus-McDowell debate. In particular, there is one person—Richard Rorty, friend, adversary, and sparring partner—whose objections did much to improve our argument, and whose untimely death prevented him from poking holes in our fi nal version. Th is is just one of the many reasons why he is sorely missed today. We also want to remember another friend, Samuel Todes, whose path- breaking work has informed our thinking. Perhaps this book might help bring attention to his important contribution to the issues we discuss. We would also like to thank Geneviève Dreyfus and Muhammad Velji for their invaluable help in preparing the fi nal manuscript, and again Muham- mad Velji for his invaluable work in drawing up the Index. Portions of Chapters 1 and 2 were published in Mind, Reason, and Being-in- the-World: Th e McDowell-Dreyfus Debate, edited by Joseph K. Schear (Lon- don: Routledge, 2013), Chapter 3.
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