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Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge – the text is written for students who have not met philosophical or theoretical approaches before. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice.
Realism as a Basis for Knowing the World
Realism as a Basis for Knowing the World
The name ‘realism’ might suggest it's a philosophy that claims to have, unlike all the others, a ‘realistic’ view of the world, a privileged access to some absolute truth about that world. Well, sorry, but that's not what realist philosophy claims.1 In fact its most fundamental doctrine should make us wary of such simplistic views of knowledge and truth. The most basic idea of realist philosophy is that the world is whatever it is largely independently of what particular observers think about it, and not simply a product of the human mind. People used to think the world was flat, but when they started thinking it was round, we don't ...
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