涉身实在论:一种对哲学基本问题的新解释

Embodied Realism:a New Interpretation of the Basic Problem of Philosophy

实在论与反实在论之争贯穿于20世纪的始终,但讨论基本停留在传统的形而上学范畴之内。涉身实在论是基于第二代认知科学的实验成果出现的一种经验主义的概念实在论,对哲学中有关实在的问题进行了全新的阐释。涉身实在论中的“涉身”是概念的涉身,“实在”是概念的实在。人类通过涉身性的概念认知世界,这种作为抽象实体的概念是“实在的”,但这种“实在”是一种“涉身的实在”,既不独立存在于客观世界,也不独立存在于“人心的世界”。涉身实在论将知识视为身体、大脑以及与环境交互作用的产物,否认世界存在一种而且只有一种正确的描述,并且拒斥“真理符合论”,认为真理之“真”依赖于人的理解,因此不可避免地陷入相对主义的泥淖。

The debate between realism and anti-realism runs through the whole twentieth century, but the discussion basically stays within the scope of traditional metaphysics. Embodied realism is an empirical conceptual realism based on the experimental results of the second generation of cognitive science. For embodied realism,"embodied " means the embodiment of concept ,and "reality" is the reality of concept. Human beings perceive the world through the concept of embodied. This concept as an abstract entity is "real", but the "reality" here is "embodied reality", which neither exists independently in the objective world nor in the mind. Embodied realism regards knowledge as the product of the interaction between body, brain and environment, denies that there is only one correct description of the world, and rejects the " correspondence theory of truth ", and holds that the "truth" depends on how humans understand it. so it inevitably falls into the mud of relativism.