Naturalism without mirrors
by Price, Huw
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.
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- Full title :Naturalism without mirrors / by Huw Price.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xii, 336 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199750740, 0199750742
- oclc:ocn986902274
- LC Classification:B5704
- Dewey Decimal:199/.94
Table of Contents
Moving the mirror aside -- Metaphysical pluralism -- Semantic minimalism and the frege point -- Two paths to pragmatism -- How to stand up for noncognitivists -- Naturalism and the fate of the m-worlds -- Ramsey on saying and whistling: a discordant note -- Truth as convenient friction -- Naturalism without representationalism -- Immodesty without mirrors: Making sense of Wittgenstein's linguistic pluralism -- Pragmatism, quasi-realism and the global challenge -- The semantic foundations of metaphysics -- Metaphysics after carnap: the ghost who walks? -- One cheer for representationalism?
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