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Naturalism Without Mirrors (Hardcover)
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Naturalism Without Mirrors (Hardcover)
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This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth,
naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of
contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price
weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian
deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the
functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about
representation to craft a powerful and sustained critique of
contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. In its place, he offers us
not nonnaturalistic metaphysics, or philosophical quietism, but a
new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold.
This collection will be essential reading for anyone interested
naturalism, pragmatism, truth, expressivism, pluralism and
representationalism, or in deep questions about the direction and
foundations of contemporary philosophy. It will be especially
important to practitioners of analytic metaphysics, if they wish to
confront the presuppositions of their own discipline. Price
recommends a modest explanatory naturalism, in the sense of Hume:
naturalism about own linguistic behavior, regarded as a behavior of
natural creatures in a natural environment. He shows how this
viewpoint privileges use and function over truth and reference, and
expression over representation, as useful theoretical categories
for the core philosophical project; and thereby undermines the
semantic presuppositions of contemporary analytic metaphysics. At
the same time, it offers an attractive resolution of the so-called
"placement problems", that so preoccupy metaphysical naturalists-a
global expressivism, with affinities both to the more local
expressivism of writers such as Blackburn and Gibbard, and to
Brandom's global inferentialism.
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