Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
Published on 16. May 2013
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Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-0-521-27906-2 (ISBN)
Description
Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his Rene Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Reviews / Votes
'A fascinating set of lectures, commentaries, and replies. I have learned much from the arguments that Huw Price and the commentators advance.' Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan 'Price's book is a refreshing and commendable addition to recent work on representationalism. His arguments are novel and forceful.' Analysis and Metaphysics 'If I could make it required reading for all first-year philosophy graduate students, I would.' Joshua Gert, MindMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-27906-2 (9780521279062)
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Persons
Huw Price is Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Facts and the Function of Truth (1988), Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point (1996) and Naturalism without Mirrors (2011). He is co-editor (with Richard Corry) of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (2007).
Content
Notes on the contributors; Preface; Part I. The Descartes Lectures 2008: 1. Naturalism without representationalism; 2. Two expressivist programmes, two bifurcations; 3. Pluralism, 'world' and the primacy of science; Part II. Commentaries: 4. Pragmatism: all or some?; 5. Naturalism, deflationism and the relative priority of language and metaphysics; 6. How pragmatists can be local expressivists; Part III. Postscript and Replies: 7. Prospects for global expressivism; Bibliography; Index.