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GONZALEZ DE LUNA, Eduardo M.. La vuelta a la ingenuidad: un comentario sobre el realismo natural de Hilary Putnam. Valenciana [online]. 2009, vol.2, n.3, pp.103-130. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i3.402.

Hilary Putnam has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his philosophical position. In relation to the problem of realism, he originally defended a position called metaphysical realism, but eventually became one of its critics, first adopting a view he called “internal realism”, which he later abandoned in favor of a direct realism. Putnam’s direct realism aims to return the study of reality to the way ordinary people actually experience the world, rejecting the idea of mental representations, sense data, or other intermediaries between mind and world. The aim of this paper is to present a view of this alternative direct realism that he calls “natural realism” and comment on his relation with other types of direct realism, in particular the realism of Thomas Reid.

Palabras llave : perception; representation; direct realism; natural realism.

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