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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 mental states, and the normative and the natural |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Truth.
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Expression
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Normativity (Ethics)
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Naturalism.
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truth.
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naturalism (philosophical movement)
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Expression
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Naturalism
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Normativity (Ethics)
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Truth
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gross, Steven, 1965- editor.
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Tebben, Nicholas, editor.
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Williams, Michael, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191030987 |
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0191030988 |
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9780191789045 |
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0191789046 |
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0198722192 |
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9780198722199 |
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