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Meaning Diminished

Toward Metaphysically Modest Semantics

Taylor, Kenneth A. (Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University)

Meaning Diminished

Meaning Diminished

Toward Metaphysically Modest Semantics

Meaning Diminished

 

Kenneth A. Taylor examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry with the aim of bringing philosophical methodology into closer alignment with total science. He urges philosophers who seek metaphysical insight to interrogate reality itself rather than language and concepts.


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Beschrijving Meaning Diminished

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry. Kenneth A. Taylor argues that we should expect linguistic and conceptual analysis of natural language to yield far less metaphysical insight into what there is - and the nature of what there is - than many philosophers have imagined. Taking a strong stand against the so-called linguistic turn in philosophy, Taylor contends that philosophers as diverse as Kant, with his Transcendental Idealism, Frege, with his aspirational Platonism, Carnap with his distinction between internal and external questions, and Strawson, with his descriptive metaphysics, have placed too much confidence in the ability of linguistic and conceptual analysis to achieve deep insight into matters of ultimate metaphysics. He urges philosophers who seek such insight to turn away from the interrogation of language and concepts and back to the more direct interrogation of reality itself. In doing so, he maps out the way forward toward a metaphysically modest semantics, in which semantics carries less weighty metaphysical burdens, and toward a revisionary and naturalistic metaphysics, untethered to the a priori analysis of ordinary language.


ISBN
9780198803447
Pagina's
222
Verschenen
NUR
617
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford