Mind Language And Metaphilosophy

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867873
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of work, which many leading philosophers still consider to be his best, Rorty develops his views on the nature and scope of philosophy in a manner which supplements and elucidates his definitive statement on these matters in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. He also develops his groundbreaking version of eliminative materialism, a label first coined to describe his position, and sets out original views on various central topics in the philosophy of language, concerning private language, indeterminacy, and verificationalism. A substantial introduction examines Rorty's philosophical development from 1961 to 1972. The volume completes our understanding of Rorty's intellectual trajectory and offers lucid statements of positions which retain their relevance to current debates.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039789
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of the early work of one of the most influential and original philosophers of our time.

Author : Paul Horwich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199588872
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy written by Paul Horwich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Horwich presents a bold new interpretation of Wittgenstein's later work. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy - and not his identification of the meaning of a word with its use - that underpins his discussions of specific issues concerning language, the mind, mathematics, knowledge, art, and religion.

Author : Søren Overgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521193419
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Metaphilosophy written by Søren Overgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and comprehensive introduction to what philosophy is, how it should be done and why we should do it.

Author : Paul Horwich
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191632856
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy written by Paul Horwich and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Horwich develops an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later writings that differs in substantial respects from what can already be found in the literature. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy—and not (as assumed by most other commentators) his identification of the meaning of a word with its use—that lies at the foundation of his discussions of specific issues concerning language, the mind, mathematics, knowledge, art, and religion. Thus Horwich's first aim is to give a clear account of Wittgenstein's hyper-deflationist view of what philosophy is, how it should be conducted, and what it might achieve. His second aim is to defend this view against a variety of objections: that is, to display its virtues, not merely as an accurate reading of Wittgenstein, but as the correct conception of philosophy itself. And the third aim is to examine the application of this view to a variety of topics—but primarily to language and to experience. A further distinctive feature of this approach is its presupposition that Wittgenstein's ideas may be formulated with precision and that solid arguments may be found on their behalf. This pair of guiding assumptions—the centrality of Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy, and its susceptibility to rigorous articulation and rational support—are admittedly controversial but are vindicated, not just textually, but by the power and plausibility of the philosophy that results from them.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521295512
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Language and Reality written by Hilary Putnam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hilary Putnam's most important published work is collected here in two volumes.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658225
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind written by Noam Chomsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.

Author : Nicholas Georgalis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317635205
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Language and Subjectivity written by Nicholas Georgalis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends and explicates the importance of ‘thought-tokens’ and minimal content and their many-to-one relation to linguistic meaning, challenging both ‘externalist’ accounts of thought and the solutions to philosophical problems of language they inspire. The concepts of idiolect, use, and statement made are critically discussed, and a classification of kinds of utterances is developed to facilitate the latter. This is an important text for those interested in current theories and debates on philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and their points of intersection.

Author : John R Searle
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786723874
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Language And Society written by John R Searle and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real-world understanding, so that those with no knowledge of philosophy can understand how these principles play out in our everyday lives. The author stresses that there is a real world out there to deal with, and condemns the belief that the reality of our world is dependent on our perception of it.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211493
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it represents as being which ways, and therefore knowing what the world must be like if it is to conform to how the sentence or belief represents it. These are truth conditions of the sentence or belief. But meanings and representational contents are not truth conditions, and there is more to propositions than representational content. In addition to imposing conditions the world must satisfy if it is to be true, a proposition may also impose conditions on minds that entertain it. The study of mind and language cannot advance further without a conception of propositions that allows them to have contents of both of these sorts. Soames provides it. He does so by arguing that propositions are repeatable, purely representational cognitive acts or operations that represent the world as being a certain way, while requiring minds that perform them to satisfy certain cognitive conditions. Because they have these two types of content—one facing the world and one facing the mind—pairs of propositions can be representationally identical but cognitively distinct. Using this breakthrough, Soames offers new solutions to several of the most perplexing problems in the philosophy of language and mind.