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The Primacy of Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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The Primacy of Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics
and the theory of meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke
develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved,
either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to
the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content
are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show,
in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics, how the
general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract
objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities
involved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our
language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original
contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers
consequential new treatments of analogue computation and
representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach
generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and
locates his account in relation to other treatments of this
classical conundrum.
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