Neopragmatism : interventions in first-order philosophy /
"Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to philosophical questions about the existence or nature of various troubling entities or properties. It seeks to un-ask distinctively metaphysical questions about these things by focusing our attention on our practices of using the relev...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to philosophical questions about the existence or nature of various troubling entities or properties. It seeks to un-ask distinctively metaphysical questions about these things by focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words instead: words like ‘true', ‘four', ‘immoral', ‘necessary', ‘art', and so on. Once we have unmysterious naturalistic explanations of our practices of making assertions with these sorts of words, and of assessing them as true or false, our distinctly metaphysical worries about them should fade. Neopragmatism differs from more common expressivist accounts of the same issues because expressivism is almost always offered as a local view of some troubling vocabulary, presented against a more general representationalist background. Neopragmatists, on the other hand, endorse deflationary accounts of reference, representation, and truth, which makes such a contrast impossible. While neopragmatism has been on the scene since the 1980s, it has generally only been visible to theorists working on the very general issue of the relation of language to reality. When it comes to first-order philosophical issues such as the nature of time, or the various modals, or colour, or art, neopragmatism seems often simply not to be on the radar. This volume takes up the task of exploring the implications—direct and indirect—of the neopragmatist perspective for various first order philosophical issues"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192647709 9780191915673 019191567X 9780192647696 0192647695 9780192647702 |