Ebook: Reality: the Search for Objectivity or the Quest for the Compelling Argument

The Irish Journal of Psychology. Vol. 9 (1988), no. 1, pp. 25-82.It is said that we human beings are rational animals. On account of this, we devalue emotions and exalt rationality so much that, whenever we see some complex behaviour in a non-human animal, we want to ascribe rational thinking to it. In this process, we have made the notion of objective reality a reference to something that we deem universal and independent of what we do, and which we use as an argument aimed at compelling someone to do something against his or her will. As an analysis of this, the article concerns the ontology of reality and is a reflection on the social and ethical consequences that understanding such an ontology may have.Introduction
The Ontology of Explaining: Conditions of Constitution of Observing
Reality: An Explanatory Proposition
Ontology of Cognition
Reflections: The Social and the Ethical
Final Remarks
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