Intellect

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Authors:  Lydia Sánchez And  Manuel Campos 
DOI: 10.1386/ejpc.1.1.75/1

Keywords
Idealism,realism,communication,sense,truth

Abstract
In this paper we position ourselves against idealist presuppositions so frequent in the humanities and social sciences, and, particularly, in communication theory. We argue that a realist approach to the study of communication avoiding such implausible assumptions is not only possible, but has already been exemplified in proposals that take communication to be a phenomenon with a biological origin. We argue that this sort of perspective can account for the variety of communicative functions we encounter in human experience, including the ones involving senses.