Language and reality from a naturalistic perspective : themes from Michael Devitt /
This book celebrates the many important contributions to philosophy by one of the leading philosophers in the analytic field, Michael Devitt. It collects seventeen original essays by renowned philosophers from all over the world. They all develop themes from Devitt's work, thus discussing many...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2020]
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| Series: | Philosophical studies series ;
. v. 142. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Michael Devitt at Eighty / Andrea Bianchi ; Part I: Philosophy of linguistics. Chapter 2. Invariance as the mark of the psychological reality of language / John Collins ; Chapter 3. Priorities and diversities in language and thought / Elisabeth Camp
- Part II: Theory of reference. Chapter 4. Theories of reference: What was the question? / Panu Raatikainen ; Chapter 5. Multiple grounding / François Recanati ; Chapter 6. Reference and causal chains / Andrea Bianchi ; Chapter 7. The qua-problem for names (dismissed) / Marga Reimer ; Chapter 8. Language from a naturalistic perspective / Frank Jackson ; Chapter 9. Michael Devitt, cultural evolution and the division of linguistic labour / Kim Sterelny
- Part III: Theory of meaning. Chapter 10. Still for direct reference / David Braun ; Chapter 11. Naming and non-necessity / Nathan Salmon ; Chapter 12. Against rigidity for general terms / Stephen P. Schwartz ; Chapter 13. Devitt and the case for narrow meaning / William G. Lycan ; Chapter 14. Languages and idiolects / Paul Horwich
- Part IV: Methodology. Chapter 15. Explanation first! The priority of scientific over "commonsense" metaphysics / Georges Rey ; Chapter 16. Experimental semantics, descriptivism and anti-descriptivism. Should we endorse referential pluralism? / Genoveva MartÃ
- Part V: Metaphysics. Chapter 17. Scientific realism and epistemic optimism / Peter Godfrey-Smith ; Chapter 18. Species have historical not intrinsic essences / Marion Godman and David Papineau
- Part VI: Michael Devitt's Responses. Chapter 19. Stirring the possum: Responses to the Bianchi papers / Michael Devitt.