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Rule-Following and Realism (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R1,504
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Rule-Following and Realism (Paperback, Revised): Gary Ebbs

Rule-Following and Realism (Paperback, Revised)

Gary Ebbs

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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.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2001
First published: April 2001
Authors: Gary Ebbs
Dimensions: 227 x 144 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 388
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00555-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
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LSN: 0-674-00555-4
Barcode: 9780674005556

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