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COMING TO OUR SENSES
A NATURALISTIC PROGRAM FOR SEMANTIC LOCALISM |
| By: |
Michael Devitt, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521498872 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521498876 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 October, 1995 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Professor Devitt takes up one of the most important difficulties that must be faced by philosophical semantics: namely, the threat posed by holism. |
| Synopsis: |
Michael Devitt is a distinguished philosopher of language. In this book he takes up one of the most important difficulties that must be faced by philosophical semantics: namely, the threat posed by holism. Three important questions lie at the core of this book: what are the main objectives of semantics; why are they worthwhile; how should we accomplish them? Devitt answers these 'methodological' questions naturalistically and explores what semantic programme arises from the answers. The approach is anti-Cartesian, rejecting the idea that linguistic or conceptual competence yields any privileged access to meanings. This new methodology is used first against holism. Devitt argues for a truth-referential localism, and in the process rejects direct-reference, two-factor, and verificationist theories. The book concludes by arguing against revisionism, eliminativism, and the idea that we should ascribe narrow meanings to explain behaviour. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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