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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786856803321

Autore

Price Huw <1953->

Titolo

Expressivism, pragmatism and representationalism / / Huw Price [and four others] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-35733-0

1-107-23460-3

1-107-25428-0

1-107-34521-9

0-511-84249-X

1-107-34771-8

1-107-34146-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

PHI015000

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackburnSimon <1944->

BrandomRobert

HorwichPaul

WilliamsMichael <1947 July 6->

Disciplina

144/.3

Soggetti

Pragmatism

Representation (Philosophy)

Expressivism (Ethics)

Naturalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ReneĢ 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.