Naturalism Without Mirrors

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Naturalism Without Mirrors

Author	: Huw Price
File Size	: 42,7 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 26 May 2011
ISBN	: 9780195084337
Pages	: 349 pages

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This volume brings together fourteen major essays by one of contemporary philosophy's 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 mold.

Naturalism Without Mirrors by Huw Price

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Naturalism Without Mirrors by Huw Price

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about representation to craft a powerful

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The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism by Mario De Caro,David Macarthur

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