The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility reconciliation between Kant’s transcendental idealism and McCarthy’s epistemological point view on artificial intelligence, which are at first glance likely be considered contradictory. For this, characterizing standpoint J. McCarthy, who coined word ‘artificial intelligence’ as scientific realism that A. Turing, provided a crucial thought...

According to R. Hanna, absolute systems, like Fichte and Hegel’s can be logically truly possible only if they neglect any ontological status extern reality. Although Hanna’s thesis seems correct concerning philosophy, Fichte’s idealism cannot classified as Hanna suggests. Rather, develops, it will shown, what calls a realist idealism, i.e. transcendental compatible with realism.

All sciences need and many arts apply mathematics whereas mathematics seems to be independent of all of them, but only based upon logic. This conservative concept, however, needs to be revised because, contrary to Platonic idealism (frequently called "realism" by mathematicians), mathematical ideas, notions, and, in particular, numbers are not at all independent of physical laws and prerequisites.

Early Days: Kantian Freedom and Extreme Realism Moore entered Cambridge University as an undergraduate in 1892 intending to study classics. There he met another undergraduate, Bertrand Russell, who convinced him to switch to philosophy. His teachers included the Absolute Idealist, J.M.E. McTaggart and the ethicist Henry Sidgwick, both of whom had an influence on him that was reflected in his 18...

This article compares two attempts to return realism after Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’. Quentin Meillassoux, representing the ‘speculative realism’ school, rejects both Kantian and post-Kantian idealism in favour of a materialism based on epistemology modern sciences. But Meillassoux is unaware element choice his philosophical position, he does not solve essential problem posed by which conc...

At the tum of the present century one problem, the so-called problem of the existence of the world, lay at the center of philosophical argument. The dominance of those who took the idealist side in this dispute, both in Germany and in England, was then rapidly being brought to an end with the works of Brentano, Meinong, Frege, Moore, and Russell, all of whom can be seen as having expressed, in ...

Many who have admired the African National Congress are confused and dismayed by post-apartheid South Africa’s foreign policy on human rights and good governance, exemplified by its most important policy test to date, viz. Zimbabwe. It is argued below that understanding this policy in terms of the widely-used explanation that it represents ‘a shift from idealism to realism’ is unsatisfactory. T...