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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful
influence on contemporary philosophy than any other
twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence
and why has it proved so enduring? In Wittgenstein's Lasting
Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the issues
surrounding Wittgenstein's importance and relevance to modern
thought. Their articles, all of which are published here for the
first time, cover the entirety of Wittgenstein's major
publications: the Tracatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical
Investigations, On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of
Mathematics. They discuss how much originality and continuity can
be found in Wittgenstein's thought, how he relates to current
traditions and movements within philosophy, and what we can learn
from his conceptions of language, knowledge, mathematics and logic.
The international set of contributors are renowned for their work
in both Wittgenstein studies and other fields of philosophy, making
Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance an important collection for
anyone interested in contemporary philosophy.
Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and
Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about
and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.
Featuring specially-commissioned chapters by leading international
philosophers with replies by Brandom himself, Reading Brandom
clarifies, critically appraises and furthers understanding of
Brandom's important book.
Divided into four parts - ?Normative Pragmatics?; ?The Challenge
of Inferentialism?; ?Inferentialist Semantics?; and ?Brandom's
Replies?, Reading Brandom covers the following key aspects of
Brandom's work:
- inferentialism vs. representationalism
- normativity in philosophy of language and mind
- pragmatics and the centrality of asserting
- language entries and exits
- meaning and truth
- semantic deflationism and logical locutions.
Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of
language and mind, Reading Brandom is also an excellent companion
volume to Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, also published by
Routledge.
Robert Brandom s Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and
Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about
and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.
Featuring specially-commissioned chapters by leading international
philosophers with replies by Brandom himself, Reading Brandom
clarifies, critically appraises and furthers understanding of
Brandom s important book.
Divided into four parts - Normative Pragmatics; The Challenge of
Inferentialism; Inferentialist Semantics; and Brandom s Replies,
Reading Brandom covers the following key aspects of Brandom s
work:
- inferentialism vs. representationalism
- normativity in philosophy of language and mind
- pragmatics and the centrality of asserting
- language entries and exits
- meaning and truth
- semantic deflationism and logical locutions.
Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of
language and mind, Reading Brandom is also an excellent companion
volume to Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, also published by
Routledge.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful
influence on contemporary philosophy than any other
twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence
and why has it proved so enduring?
In "Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance," twelve contemporary
philosophers explore the issues surrounding Wittgenstein's
importance and relevance to modern thought. Their articles, ten of
which are published here for the first time, cover all of
Wittgenstein's major publications: the "Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus," "Philosophical" "Investigations," "On
Certainty," and "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics," They
discuss how much originality and continuity can be found in
Wittgenstein's thought, how he relates to current traditions and
movements within philosophy, and what we can learn from his
conceptions of language, knowledge, mathematics and logic.
The international set of contributors are renownedfor their work in
both Wittgenstein studies and other fields of philosophy, making
"Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance" an important collection for
anyone interested in contemporary philosophy.
Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and
psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed
philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to
Understand Language" frames its discussion by these two questions.
The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard
to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with
the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to
these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on
philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended
investigation of the programme of constructing a theory of meaning.
Donald Davidson's advocacy of that approach becomes pivotal;
though, the book endorses his broad approach, it argues strongly
against the roles both of truth theory and of radical
interpretation.
Michael Dummett's approach to the metaphysical issue of realism
through the philosophy of language, his challenge to realism, and
his philosophy of language itself are central topics in
contemporary analytic philosophy and have influenced the work of
other major figures such as Quine, Putnam, and Davidson. This book
offers an accessible and systematic presentation of the main
elements of Dummett's philosophy. This book's overarching theme is
Dummett's discussion of realism: his characterization of realism,
his attack on realism, and his invention and exploration of the
anti-realist position. This book begins by examining Dummett's
views on language. Only against that setting can one fully
appreciate his conception of the realism issue. With this in place,
Weiss returns to Dummett's views on the nature of meaning and
understanding to unfold his challenge to realism. Weiss devotes the
remainder of this book to examining the anti-realist position. He
discusses anti-realist theories of meaning and then investigates
anti-realism's revisionary consequences. Finally, he engages with
Dummett's discussion of two difficult challenges for the
anti-realist: the past and mathematics.
Michael Dummett's approach to the metaphysical issue of realism
through the philosophy of language, his challenge to realism, and
his philosophy of language itself are central topics in
contemporary analytic philosophy and have influenced the work of
other major figures such as Quine, Putnam, and Davidson. This book
offers an accessible and systematic presentation of the main
elements of Dummett's philosophy. This book's overarching theme is
Dummett's discussion of realism: his characterization of realism,
his attack on realism, and his invention and exploration of the
anti-realist position. This book begins by examining Dummett's
views on language. Only against that setting can one fully
appreciate his conception of the realism issue. With this in place,
Weiss returns to Dummett's views on the nature of meaning and
understanding to unfold his challenge to realism. Weiss devotes the
remainder of the book to examining the anti-realist position. He
discusses anti-realist theories of meaning and then investigates
anti-realism's revisionary consequences. Finally, he engages with
Dummett's discussion of two difficult challenges for the
anti-realist: the past and mathematics.
No one seriously interested in the philosophy of language can
afford to ignore the work of Michael Dummett (b. 1925). Dummett's
approach to the metaphysical issue of realism through the
philosophy of language, his challenge to realism, and his
philosophy of language itself are central topics in contemporary
analytic philosophy and have influenced the work of other major
figures such as Quine, Putnam, and Davidson. This book offers, in
an accessible and no-nonsense manner, a systematic presentation of
the main elements of Dummett's pivotal contribution to contemporary
philosophy. Its overarching theme is his discussion of realism:
Bernhard Weiss explores the philosopher's characterization of
realism, his attack on realism, and his invention and exploration
of the anti-realist position.
The book begins by examining Dummett's views on language. Only
against that setting can one fully appreciate his conception of the
realism issue. With this in place, Weiss returns to Dummett's views
on the nature of meaning and understanding to unfold his challenge
to realism. Weiss devotes the remainder of the book to examining
the anti-realist position. He discusses anti-realist theories of
meaning and then investigates anti-realism's revisionary
consequences. Finally, he engages with Dummett's discussion of two
difficult challenges for the anti-realist: the past and
mathematics.
Dummett is one of the most influential philosophers of modern
times. This book is a sympathetic and accessible study, aiming not
only to expose but to engage both with Dummett's philosophical
thought and with his philosophical character.
Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and
psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed
philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to
Understand Language" frames its discussion by these two questions.
The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard
to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with
the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to
these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on
philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended
investigation of the programme of constructing a theory of meaning.
Donald Davidson's advocacy of that approach becomes pivotal;
though, the book endorses his broad approach, it argues strongly
against the roles both of truth theory and of radical
interpretation.
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