Sur la difference entre dire et connaitre le vrai: en defense du realisme metaphysique

Abstract

This paper focuses on the difference between anti-metaphysical
and metaphysical realism as it has been introduced by Jocelyn Benoist’s
L’addresse du Réel. I will demonstrate that the philosophical approach
known as “speculative realism” is not, as it has been critically
defined, a mere retourn to the dogmatism of the things-in-themselves, but
a completely different project that aims to justify the objectivity of scientific
knowledge. This does not entail the necessity of overcoming the
limits of experience, but the necessity of knowing why some certain descriptions
of experienced objects can be considered as objective, while
other must be considered as true reports of subjective experience.