Philosophy For Our Times

The world after reality | Hilary Lawson

Mar 7, 2023

30:55

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Hilary Lawson

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All of Our Sensations Are Not Descriptions of the World

01:20

Observation and Reason

01:20

What Has Replaced God?

01:20

Is There a Model Independent Test of Reality?

02:38

Introduction

3min

Is Reality an Illusion?

3min

Is There a Model Independent Test of Reality?

3min

We Are at Play in a Language Game, Haven't We?

3min

Is There Anything That Language Can't Define?

2min

The Science of the World

2min

The Fire of the Neuron Is a Response to the World

3min

The Constraint of Physiology

4min

We're Never Going to Get to the Bottom of Our Theories

2min

10.

We Can Hold the World Differently

3min

11.

The Account of Openness and Closedness

2min

Is it time to abandon the search for reality?

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Nietzsche famously declared 'God is dead' in the late nineteenth century. Outspoken critic of philosophical realism Hilary Lawson observes that today we have replaced God with ‘reality’. He urges us to abandon this elusive and unattainable concept, offering an alternative view which embraces observation and reason while abandoning reality for good.

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