Meaning without representation : essays on truth, expression, normativity, and naturalism

Meaning without representation : essays on truth, expression, normativity, and naturalism / edited by Steven Gross, Nocholas Tebben, and Michael Williams.

A team of leading experts challenge the view that the core function of language is to represent the world as it is. They explore obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism, and give particular attention to deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing ment...

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Other Authors: Gross, Steven, 1965- (Editor), Tebben, Nicholas (Editor), Williams, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Truth.
Expression.
Normativity (Ethics)
Naturalism.
truth.
naturalism (philosophical movement)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Expression
Naturalism
Truth
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Anti-representational semantics : four themes / Nicholas Tebben
  • Truth and reference. Deflationism, pragmatism, and metaphysics / Rebecca kukla and Eric Winsberg ; Does the expressive role of 'true' preclude deflationary Davidsonian semantics? / Steven Gross ; An inferential account of referential success / Alexis Burgess ; Representation and the modern correspondence theory of truth / Michale Glanzberg ; Deflationism, truth, and accuracy / Dean Pettit
  • Expression and expressivism. What would an expressivist semantics be? / Mark Richard ; Hard cases for combining expressivism and deflationist truth : conditionals and epistemic modals / Mark Schroeder ; Expression : acts, products, and meaning / Dorit Bar-On ; Global expressivism and the truth in representation / Allan Gibbard ; The limits of expressivism / Anandi Hattiangadi
  • Normativity. Pragmatism and the price of truth / Michael Patrick Lynch ; Pragmatism and the function of truth / Cheryl Misak ; Life is not a box-score : lived normativity, abstract evaluation, and the is/ought distinction / Mark Lance
  • Naturalism. Idling and sidling toward philosophical peace / Huw Price ; Is (determinate) meaning a naturalistic phenomenon? / Paul Boghossian ; Kripke's Wittgenstein / Paul Horwich.

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