ENVIRONMENT AND ITS ONTOLOGICAL STATUS

• Authors: Italia Salvatore
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Is reality a ‘Ready-Made World’ or an entity constructed by individuals and social activity? The concept of the environment seems to be the boundary that clearly shows how we can simultaneously adhere to our apparently contradictory intuitions— that is, those about the external and autonomous features of reality independent of human intervention, and those about its undeniably constructed character. The environment, then, seems to be a concept that shows how non-epistemic and epistemic notions of reality (i.e. respectively seeing reality as independent from and dependent on us) can be understood cohesively.

Keywords

EN

AFFORDANCES; ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; REALISM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 488 – 502

Contributors

author

Italia Salvatore

• Department of Education, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy