Expressivism Pragmatism And Representationalism

Author : Huw Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009847
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism written by Huw Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents Price's distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

Author : Reader in Philosophy Huw Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107341463
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism written by Reader in Philosophy Huw Price and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Price's distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

Author : Huw Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195084330
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism Without Mirrors written by Huw Price and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together fourteen major essays by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price links themes from Quine, Carnap, Wittgenstein and Rorty, to craft a powerful critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. He offers a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold.

Author : Huw Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199750742
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism Without Mirrors written by Huw Price and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about representation to craft a powerful and sustained critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. In its place, he offers us not nonnaturalistic metaphysics, or philosophical quietism, but a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold. This collection will be essential reading for anyone interested naturalism, pragmatism, truth, expressivism, pluralism and representationalism, or in deep questions about the direction and foundations of contemporary philosophy. It will be especially important to practitioners of analytic metaphysics, if they wish to confront the presuppositions of their own discipline. Price recommends a modest explanatory naturalism, in the sense of Hume: naturalism about own linguistic behavior, regarded as a behavior of natural creatures in a natural environment. He shows how this viewpoint privileges use and function over truth and reference, and expression over representation, as useful theoretical categories for the core philosophical project; and thereby undermines the semantic presuppositions of contemporary analytic metaphysics. At the same time, it offers an attractive resolution of the so-called "placement problems", that so preoccupy metaphysical naturalists--a global expressivism, with affinities both to the more local expressivism of writers such as Blackburn and Gibbard, and to Brandom's global inferentialism.

Author : Steven Gross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191030988
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning Without Representation written by Steven Gross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism. Particular attention is given to deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation. The chapters further various fundamental debates in metaphysics—for example, concerning the question of finding a place for moral properties in a naturalistic world-view—and illuminate the relation of the recent neo-pragmatist revival to the expressivist stream in analytic philosophy of language.

Author : Robert Neal Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198723172
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passions and Projections written by Robert Neal Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known to the general public for his attempts to make philosophy accessible to those with little or no formal training, Simon Blackburn's reputation in academic circles is based on a lifetime pursuit of a projectivist and anti-realist research programme in the spirit of the great David Hume. This volume of critical essays by some of the most influential philosophers working today documents the whole range and influence of Blackburn's work, and poses some novel challenges for him.

Author : Jonathan Knowles
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031269241
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation, Experience, and Metaphysics written by Jonathan Knowles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy. This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Richard Rorty, Paul Horwich, Huw Price and Amie Thomasson. It is the first book to explicitly consider this well-known pragmatist kind of anti-representationalism in relation to anti-representationalist views in other areas of philosophy, in particular the philosophy of perception and cognitive science. Taking as its point of departure the neo-pragmatism of Rorty and Price, it critiques the way these (and other) thinkers develop, on this basis, a positive view of philosophy and its remit. By examining the debate about representationalism versus anti-representationalism in perception and cognitive science it provides a different way of understanding the significance of neo-pragmatism, as well as providing an independently interesting perspective on these other debates. A central idea in this perspective involves distinguishing between a world-for-us and a world-in-itself, though in a different way from Kant and many other philosophers. The book extends these reflections to examine questions about realism and the limits of metaphysics for anti-representationalist pragmatism, arguing the view can uphold a common sense kind of realism, as well as the value of distinctively philosophical enquiry in metaphysics.

Author : Cheryl Misak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191020044
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Pragmatism written by Cheryl Misak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.

Author : Cheryl Misak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199279977
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Pragmatists written by Cheryl Misak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatism is the view that our philosophical concepts must be connected to our practices - philosophy must stay connected to first-order inquiry, to real examples, to real-life expertise. Contemporary philosophers explore this and develop the pragmatist project, showing that pragmatism is a strong current in philosophy today.

Author : Robert B. Brandom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615056
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Saying and Doing written by Robert B. Brandom and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight both to what one has to do in order to count as saying various things and to what one needs to say in order to specify those doings, makes it possible to shed new light on the relations between semantics (the theory of the meanings of utterances and the contents of thoughts) and pragmatics (the theory of the functional relations among meaningful or contentful items). Among the vocabularies whose interrelated use and meaning are considered are: logical, indexical, modal, normative, and intentional vocabulary. As the argument proceeds, new ways of thinking about the classic analytic core programs of empiricism, naturalism, and functionalism are offered, as well as novel insights about the ideas of artificial intelligence, the nature of logic, and intentional relations between subjects and objects.