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Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019156799X |
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Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences (relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and, unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.
Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Relativity |
ISBN | : 9780191720963 |
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Cappelen and Hawthorne present a powerful critique of fashionable relativist accounts of truth, and the foundational ideas in semantics on which the new relativism draws. They argue that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth and falsity.
Author | : John Gordon MacFarlane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199682755 |
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John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth, going back to Plato's Theaetetus, this literature (both pro and con) has tended to focus on refutations of the doctrine, or refutations of these refutations, at the expense of saying clearly what the doctrine is. In contrast, Assessment Sensitivity begins with a clear account of what it is to be a relativist about truth, and uses this view to give satisfying accounts of what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do. The book seeks to provide a richer framework for the description of linguistic practices than standard truth-conditional semantics affords: one that allows not just standard contextual sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context in which an expression is used), but assessment sensitivity (sensitivity to features of the context from which a use of an expression is assessed). The Context and Content series is a forum for outstanding original research at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. The general editor is Francois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris).
Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199644861 |
Download Philosophy Without Intuitions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.
Author | : Jessica Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019957300X |
Download Assertion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is, particularly in light of relativist views of truth, and how assertion is governed by epistemic norms.
Author | : Richard Schantz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 311032590X |
Download The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.
Author | : Manuel García-Carpintero |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2008-08-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199234957 |
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Relative Truth examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.
Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199686742 |
Download The Inessential Indexical Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book the authors argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality, irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes.
Author | : Patrick Greenough |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199288885 |
Download Truth and Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.
Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Cultural relativism |
ISBN | : 9780631179115 |
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