Knowledge and Language : Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen /
This collection of twenty papers deals with a wide range of issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of psychology, jurisprudence and philosophy of science. It should be of interest to, and prove a stimulus for new work by, researchers and practitioners worki...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2002.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
227. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This collection of twenty papers deals with a wide range of issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of psychology, jurisprudence and philosophy of science. It should be of interest to, and prove a stimulus for new work by, researchers and practitioners working in any of these fields. Tracing a route backwards through the papers as presented here, the final group is largely concerned with how empirical knowledge may be acquired through evidence in states of uncertainty; the middle group explores how such evidence often requires or results in conceptual innovation and is given to us in language the meaning of which may be difficult to determine; the first group explores how a theory of meaning can be constructed for natural and artificial languages. The papers exhibit a distinctive analytical perspective and a great deal of thematic continuity, underpinned by commitment to the richness both of language and of enquiry and opposition to simplistic or dogmatic formalisations and analyses. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401720205 (electronic bk.) 9401720207 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0068-0346 ; |