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Meaning Without Representation

Essays on Truth, Expression, Normativity, and Naturalism

Michael (Johns Hopkins University) Williams & Nicholas (Towson University) Tebben & Steven (Johns Hopkins University) Gross

Meaning Without Representation

Meaning Without Representation

Essays on Truth, Expression, Normativity, and Naturalism

Meaning Without Representation

 

A team of leading experts challenge the view that the core function of language is to represent the world as it is. They explore obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism, and give particular attention to deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural.


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Beschrijving Meaning Without Representation

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.


ISBN
9780198722199
Pagina's
400
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NUR
610
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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