ISBN: 9780674003392

This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. Charles Travis targets the seductive illusion thatâ??in Wittgenstein''s termsâ??""… Mehr…

This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. Charles Travis targets the seductive illusion thatâ??in Wittgenstein''s termsâ??""if anyone utters a sentence and means or understands it, he is operating a calculus according to definite rules."" This book rejects the idea that thoughts are essentially representational items whose content is independent of context. In doing so, it undermines the foundations of much contemporary philosophy of mind. Travis''s main argument in Unshadowed Thought is that linguistic expressions and forms are occasion-sensitive; they cannot be abstracted out of a concrete context. With compelling examples and a thoroughgoing scrutiny of opposing positions, his book systematically works out the implications of the work of J. L. Austin, Hilary Putnam, and John McDowell. Eloquently insisting that there is no particular way one must structure what one relates to, no one way one must represent it, Unshadowed Thought identifies and resists a certain strain of semantic Platonism that permeates current philosophy-a strain that has had profoundly troubling consequences for our ideas about attitudes and beliefs and for our views about what language might be. | Unshadowed Thought by Charles Travis Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Philosophy > Epistemology P10105, Charles Travis<

ISBN: 9780674003392

Hardback, [PU: Harvard University Press], This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. It rejects the idea that thoughts are es… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: Harvard University Press], This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. It rejects the idea that thoughts are essentially representational items whose content is independent of context. In doing so, it undermines the foundations of much contemporary philosophy of mind., Philosophy Of Language<

2001, ISBN: 9780674003392

Harvard University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 263 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-01-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.32 kg, Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bü… Mehr…

Harvard University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 263 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-01-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.32 kg, Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Linguistik, Textbooks, Harvard University Press, 2001<

2001, ISBN: 067400339X

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