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Umfang: 1 online resource (384 p.)

ISBN: 9780674034419

Inhalt: Through detailed and trenchant criticism of standard interpretations of some of the key arguments in analytical philosophy over the last sixty years, this book arrives at a new conception of the proper starting point and task of the philosophy of language. To understand central topics in the philosophy of language and mind, Gary Ebbs contends, we must investigate them from our perspective as participants in shared linguistic practices; but our efforts at adopting this participant perspective are limited by our lingering loyalties to metaphysical realism (the view that we can make objective assertions only if we can grasp metaphysically independent truth conditions) and scientific naturalism (the view that it is only within science that reality can be identified and described). In Rule-Following and Realism, Ebbs works to loosen the hold of these views by exposing their roots and developing a different way of looking at our linguistic practices. Reexamining and extending influential arguments by Saul Kripke, W. V. Quine, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, and Tyler Burge, Ebbs presents systematic redescriptions of our linguistic practices that transform our understanding of such central topics as rule-following, the analytic-synthetic distinction, realism, anti-individualism, the division of linguistic labor, self-knowledge, and skepticism.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Introduction -- , I Rule-Following -- , ONE Kripke’s Skepticism about Meaning -- , TWO Quine’s Scientific Skepticism about Meaning -- , THREE The Very Idea of a Participant Perspective -- , II The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , FOUR Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , FIVE Quine’s Reasons for Rejecting Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , SIX Putnam’s Reasons for Rejecting Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , III Anti-Individualism -- , SEVEN From the Rejection of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction to Anti-Individualism -- , EIGHT Participation, Deference, and Dialectic -- , NINE Realism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism -- , TEN Anti-Individualism and Rule-Following -- , NOTES -- , INDEX , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.4159/9780674034419

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674034419

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674034419

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xvi,368p.)

ISBN: 0-674-03441-4

Inhalt: Ebbs presents systematic redescriptions of our linguistic practices that transform our understanding of such central topics as rule-following, the analytic-synthetic distinction, realism, anti-individualism, self-knowledge and scepticism.

Anmerkung: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Introduction -- , I Rule-Following -- , ONE Kripke’s Skepticism about Meaning -- , TWO Quine’s Scientific Skepticism about Meaning -- , THREE The Very Idea of a Participant Perspective -- , II The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , FOUR Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , FIVE Quine’s Reasons for Rejecting Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , SIX Putnam’s Reasons for Rejecting Carnap’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction -- , III Anti-Individualism -- , SEVEN From the Rejection of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction to Anti-Individualism -- , EIGHT Participation, Deference, and Dialectic -- , NINE Realism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism -- , TEN Anti-Individualism and Rule-Following -- , NOTES -- , INDEX , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-674-78031-0

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-674-00555-4

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.4159/9780674034419