Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

Informationen zum Autor Huw Price is Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Facts and the Function of Truth (1988), Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point (1996) and Naturalism without Mirrors (2011). He is co-editor (with Richard Corry) of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (2007). Klappentext This volume presents Price's distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures. Zusammenfassung This volume presents the Tilburg University Descartes Lectures delivered by Huw Price in 2008! where he discusses his distinctive version of the representationalism/naturalism combination. Includes critical commentary by four other major philosophers! and a response from Price. Essential course reading for advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the contributors; Preface; Part I. The Descartes Lectures 2008: 1. Naturalism without representationalism; 2. Two expressivist programmes, two bifurcations; 3. Pluralism, 'world' and the primacy of science; Part II. Commentaries: 4. Pragmatism: all or some?; 5. Naturalism, deflationism and the relative priority of language and metaphysics; 6. How pragmatists can be local expressivists; Part III. Postscript and Replies: 7. Prospects for global expressivism; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom, Brandom Robert, Horwich Paul, Huw Price, Huw (University of Cambridge) Blackburn Price, Huw Blackburn Price, Price Huw, Michael Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107009844
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00984-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: logic