Anthropocentrism in Philosophy

Ethics investigates the human good, epistemology investigates human knowledge, and antirealist metaphysics holds that the world depends on our cognitive capacities. Nevertheless, all three (ethics, epistemology, and antirealist metaphysics) can be reinterpreted as making no reference to humans. This book deals with this topic.

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This book examines the paradoxical role of anthropocentrism in philosophy. Ethics is generally considered to be about the human good, epistemology about human knowledge, and metaphysical antirealism, unless reinterpreted, claims the world depends on our cognitive capacities. But philosophers do not engage in empirical research, though humans' good and knowledge are empirical matters. And humans are merely inhabitants, not "makers", of the world.