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Objectivity and the parochial /

Charles Travis investigates a puzzling problem in philosophy. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. 'Objectivity and the Parochial' sugges...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Travis, Charles, 1943-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Objectivity.
Thought and thinking.
Thinking
Objectivité.
Pensée.
thinking.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Objectivity
Thought and thinking
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What laws of logic say
  • Frege's target
  • The twilight of empiricism
  • Psychologism
  • Morally alien thought
  • To represent as so
  • The proposition's progress
  • Truth and merit
  • The shape of the conceptual
  • Thought's social nature
  • Faust's way.