Abstract

RAMIREZ, Mario Teodoro. Phenomenology of Perception and New Realism. Merleau-Ponty, Meillassoux and Markus Gabriel. Diánoia [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.86, pp.27-49.  Epub Oct 11, 2021. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2021.86.1778.

This essay claims that the thesis of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, insofar that it criticizes both empirism and idealism, points towards a form of realism (perceptual realism). To argue this, and to show the validity of the work of the French thinker, I contrast his thoughts with the approaches of “speculative realism” of Meillassoux, of the “new realism” of Gabriel and of “plural realism” of Taylor and Dreyfus. I propose the concept of “ontological realism” in order to support the posture of Merleau-Ponty and the arguments of this essay.

Keywords : correlationism; body; perception; phenomenic field; realism.

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