Quasi Objects - A Realist Philosopher

West is famous for having issued essentially an apology about 15 years after this book was written. He understood that he had been taken to be a strong social constructivist, and that he lamented the fact that his work had been used to support a post modern devalidation or denial of reality. The clearest articulation you can of that an a hundred percent agree with west isn't really clearly articulated in this book. But the closest we can get is in his discussion of quasi objects. Quasi objects are much more social, much more fabricated, much more collective than the hard parts of nature. On the other hand, they are much more real, unhuman and objective than those shapeless