Levi responds to a “you’re valorizing science” criticism

But my favorite part OF THIS VERY INTERESTING POST comes a bit later. Namely:

“Having outlined these two possibilities for epistemology and these two possibilities for ontology, it will be noticed that it now becomes possible to form combinations of these positions. There are three such positions:

1. It is possible to advocate a realist epistemology and a realist ontology. Indeed, someone who advocates a realist epistemology necessarily advocates a realist ontology.

2. It is possible to advocate an anti-realist epistemology and an anti-realist ontology. I would argue that this is the dominant position in Continental thought today.

Finally 3. It is possible to advocate an anti-realist epistemology and a realist ontology.

I would argue that it is the third position that the object-oriented ontologists advocate. Here Harman, hopefully, will correct me if I am attributing claims to him that he would not make, though I’ll stand by them with respect to my own version of object-oriented ontology.”

No need to correct. This is a fair description of my position, no less than of Levi’s own.