Rule-following, Response-dependence and Realism
Author | : Jussi Haukioja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789512916429 |
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Author | : Jussi Haukioja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789512916429 |
Author | : Norris Christopher Norris |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Judgment |
ISBN | : 1474471366 |
Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we could never acquire or manifest a knowledge of it.While setting out the issues clearly and concisely, Norris also provides some relevant background history to this current debate, including discussion of its sources and analogues in Plato, Locke, Kant and Wittgenstein. His book offers invaluable guidance for student readers in search of a reliable introductory survey of the field. Among those with a more specialist interest it may sometimes provoke disagreement, as when Norris argues that the response-dependence approach often goes along with a disguised anti-realist bias and hence fails to make good on its 'third-way' promise. However, its combination of wide-ranging coverage with clarity of focus and depth of philosophical treatment will be welcomed.Key Features:*Clear, accessible account of some complex philosophical issues;*First book-length study of the response-dependence debate;*Informative discussion of its pre-history in philosophers from Plato to Hume, Locke and Kant;*Aimed at readers seeking a reliable, well-informed introductory account while relevant to those with a more specialist knowledge of the topic.
Author | : C. Norris |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2004-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230512364 |
Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date and with no further role than to prop up existing divisions of intellectual labour. He makes his case through some exceptionally acute revisionist readings of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Paul de Man, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. In each instance Norris stresses the value of bringing various trans-disciplinary perspectives to bear while none-the-less maintaining adequate standards of area-specific relevance and method. Most importantly he asserts the central role of recent developments in cognitive science as pointing a way beyond certain otherwise intractable problems in philosophy of mind and language.
Author | : Bernhard Weiss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317492293 |
Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to Understand Language" frames its discussion by these two questions. The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended investigation of the programme of constructing a theory of meaning. Donald Davidson's advocacy of that approach becomes pivotal; though, the book endorses his broad approach, it argues strongly against the roles both of truth theory and of radical interpretation.
Author | : Alex Miller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2007-09-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113427114X |
This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy. The second edition includes new material on: Chomsky, Wittgenstein and Davidson as well as new chapters on the causal theory of reference, possible worlds semantics and semantic externalism.
Author | : Christopher Norris |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2005-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826477321 |
Christopher Norris attempts to make epistemology, the theory of knowledge, accessible to students and those with little prior knowledge of the subject through a series of debates which aim to give an balanced overview.
Author | : Alexander Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Devitt |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1997-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691011875 |
In a provocative thesis, philosophy professor Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world and for a corresponding notion of truthcontrary to the opinions of anti-realists such as Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and others. This second edition includes a new Afterword by the author.
Author | : Philip Pettit |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019925186X |
The essays selected here come in three packages. The first set of essays is concerned with the rule-following, response-dependent character of thought; the second, with the many factors to which choice is rationally responsive--and by reference to which choice can be explained--consistently being under the control of such reason-giving thought; and the third, with the implications of this multiple sensitivity for how best to regulate human institutions with a view to securing a desirable normative order.
Author | : Andrew Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
A contemporary collection of readings in metaethics, this work discusses whether moral properties exist and how they fit into the world as science conceives it. It is useful for the study of metaethics at undergraduate and postgraduate level.