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2020 | 69 | 7-36

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Techniques of Bridging the Gulf: Dialectic and Reductionism in McDowell and Fichte

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Techniki budowania mostu nad przepaścią: dialektyka i redukcjonizm u McDowella i Fichtego

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“Dialectic” has been a matter of growing interest in contemporary philosophy. The present article analyzes dialectical methods and positions them by reference to two paradigmatic texts of German idealism and analytic philosophy, i.e. J.G. Fichte’s Science of Knowing (1804) and J. McDowell’s Mind and World. Both dialectical approaches will be interpreted with regard to their contribution in the debate on reductionism and anti-reductionism: both Fichte and McDowell claim that philosophical positions and logical terms stand in a dualistic relationship to one another, on the one hand, but are separated by a gulf, on the other. I will argue that for McDowell dialectic seems to be an alternative to one-sided reductionisms as well as to normal anti-reductionistic holism. Furthermore, for Fichte dialectic is an adequate method for describing the relationship of reductionism and anti-reductionism itself. Both see in dialectic a technique for bridging the gulf between binary opposite terms of logic as well as mutually exclusive positions, such as mind and world, subject and object, or idealism and realism.
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We współczesnej filozofii „dialektyka” cieszy się rosnącym zainteresowaniem. Artykuł ten analizuje metody dialektyczne i rozważa je w odniesieniu do dwóch paradygmatycznych tekstów z obszarów idealizmu niemieckiego i filozofii analitycznej, tj. Teorii wiedzy J.G. Fichtego (1804) oraz Umysłu i świata J. McDowella. Przedstawione w nich ujęcia dialektyczne zostaną zinterpretowane w kontekście ich wkładu do debaty na temat redukcjonizmu i antyredukcjonizmu. Zarówno Fichte, jak i McDowell uważają, że stanowiska filozoficzne oraz terminy logiczne: z jednej strony są ze sobą powiązane, z drugiej zaś – oddzielone są od siebie przepaścią. Pokażę, że dla McDowella dialektyka wydaje się alternatywą zarówno dla jednostronnego redukcjonizmu, jak i dla normalnego antyredukcjonistycznego holizmu. Ponadto zaś – że dla Fichtego dialektyka jest adekwatną metodą opisywania relacji między redukcjonizmem i antyredukcjonizmem. Obaj myśliciele widzą w dialektyce technikę budowania mostu nad przepaścią rozciągającą się pomiędzy binarnie przeciwnymi terminami logicznymi, a także pomiędzy tym, co zdaje się wzajemnie wykluczać, jak umysł i świat, podmiot i przedmiot czy idealizm i realizm.

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