Abstract

ORTIZ SANTANA, Fernando E.. Analysis and Critique of Maurizio Ferraris’s “Minimal Realism”. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2021, n.60, pp.153-174.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1123.

This paper analyzes Maurizio Ferraris’s “minimal realism” with the aim of showing that his criticisms of correlationism and constructivism are not convincing. Ferraris preserves both a substantivist vision of the objects of knowledge and a substantial difference between sensible things and concepts. These two issues prevent his Manifesto of New Realism from being considered the founding moment of the “new realism.” The paper concludes with a reflection on those aspects that should be considered and avoided when proposing a philosophical realism.

Keywords : minimal realism; Maurizio Ferraris; correlationism; constructivism.