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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821992903321

Autore

Boghossian Paul A (Paul Artin), <1957->

Titolo

Content and Justification [[electronic resource] ] : Philosophical Papers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, UK, 2008

ISBN

1-383-04387-6

0-19-155890-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

121/.4

Soggetti

Content (Psychology)

Mental representation

Philosophy of mind

Knowledge, Theory of

A priori

Psychology

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. THE NATURE OF CONTENT; 1. The Rule-Following Considerations; 2. The Status of Content; 3. Naturalizing Content; 4. Is Meaning Normative?; 5. Epistemic Rules; Suggestions for Further Reading; PART II. CONTENT AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 6. Content and Self-Knowledge; 7. The Transparency of Mental Content; 8. What the Externalist Can Know A Priori; Suggestions for Further Reading; PART III. CONTENT AND THE A PRIORI; 9. Analyticity Reconsidered; 10. Epistemic Analyticity: A Defense; 11. How are Objective Epistemic Reasons Possible?

12. Blind ReasoningSuggestions for Further Reading; PART IV. COLOR: CONCEPTS AND PROPERTIES; 13. Colour as a Secondary Quality; 14. Physicalist Theories of Color; Suggestions for Further Reading; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a series of influential essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a



priori knowledge. The essays are organized under four headings: the nature of content; content and self-knowledge; knowledge, content, and the a priori; and colour concepts. - ;Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.  Part one comprises essays on the nature of rule-following and its relation to the problem of mental content; on the intellig