This volume brings together fourteen major essays by one of contemporary philosophys most challenging thinkers. Huw Price links themes from Quine, Carnap, Wittgenstein and Rorty, to craft a powerful critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. He offers a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mould. INDICE: Preface; 1. Moving the Mirror Aside; 2. Metaphysical Pluralism; 3.Semantic Minimalism and the Frege Point; 4. Two Paths to Pragmatism; 5. How to Stand Up for Noncognitivists; 6. Naturalism and the fate of the M-Worlds; 7.Ramsey On Saying And Whistling: A Discordant Note; 8. Truth As Convenient Friction; 9. Naturalism Without Representationalism; 10. Immodesty Without Mirrors-Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Linguistic Pluralism; 11.. Pragmatism, Quasi-realism and the Global Challenge; 12. The Semantic Foundations of Metaphysics;13. Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks?; 14. One Cheer for Representationalism?; Notes; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-508433-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés