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Philosophical Representation - Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Representation - Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical
representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude
towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy
that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is
awash with theoretical representations, which raises the question
of how we should regard them. This book argues that representations
in philosophy should not be regarded under a realist attitude by
default as individually disclosing the nature of what they
represent. Ori Simchen introduces the reader to the general theme
of representations in philosophy and our attitudes towards them via
case studies: numbers, modality, and belief. He offers a framework
for deciding when a realist attitude towards a theoretical
representation is warranted and concludes that the representations
deployed in the case studies fail the proposed test. The next part
of the book illustrates the attractiveness of attitudinal
instrumentalism towards representations in semantics, in the
philosophy of mind, and within the problematics of rule-following.
Philosophical Representation will appeal to researchers and
advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of
mind, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophical
methodology.
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