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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. What Is Neopragmatism? -- 1. A Broad Overview -- 2. Historical Connections -- 3. Theoretical Starting Points -- 4. Genealogy -- 5. Demystification -- 6. Social Practices -- 7. Quietism -- 8. Conclusion -- Part II. Time, Causes, and Science -- 2. Time for Pragmatism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, and Expressivism -- 3. Temporal Indexicals -- 4. What Makes Time Special? -- 5. The Temporal Modalities: Probability and Causation -- 5.2 Practical Relevance for Causation -- 6. A World of Dispositions -- 7. Signs and Dispositional Triggers -- 8. Great Expectations: Thought as a Predictive Engine -- 9. Neopragmatism, Natural Science, and the Physics of Time -- 10. Demarcation Issues -- 3. A Neopragmatist Approach to Modality -- 1. Initial Problems: Complexity and Methodology -- 2. The General Challenge: Identifying Linguistic Functions -- 3. Where to Begin? The Developmental Progression -- 4. Functions of Basic Modal Discourse -- 5. Functions of Sophisticated Modal Discourse -- 6. Lessons So Far -- 7. What Does All of This Have to Do with Metaphysics? -- 8. General Lessons -- 4. Neopragmatism in the Philosophy of Perception? The Case of Primitive Color -- 1. Introduction: Discarding the "Mirror" and Querying "Nature" -- 2. What Primitivism Is and Why Realism Causes It Trouble -- 3. Abandoning Realism_ Objective and Subjective Colors -- 4. Non-Realism, Idealism, and Global Pragmatism -- 5. A Neopragmatist Treatment of Causation and Laws of Nature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Clarification of the Explicata: Responsibility and Effectiveness -- 3. Neopragmatist Semantics for Responsibility and Effectiveness -- 4. An Objection Considered -- 5. General Causation -- 6. Lawhood -- 7. Singular Causation -- 8. Conclusion |
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Part III. Language, Truth, and Logic -- 6. A Pragmatic Genealogy of Rule-Following -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rule-Following and the Problem It Raises -- 3. Being Sensitized to Patterns -- 4. Identifying Patterns -- 5. Triangulating on Patterns -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Neopragmatism and Reference Magnetism -- 1. Reference Magnetism -- 2. Neopragmatism -- 3. A Tempting Objection to Neopragmatism -- 4. Some Clarifications of the Objection -- 5. The Objection Answered -- 6. Reference Magnetism as a Corollary of Neopragmatism -- 7. Theories of Reference as Heuristics -- 8. Robust Reference and Reference Magnetism -- 9. Robust Reference Magnetism -- 8. Realism Rehabilitated -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 9. What Is Linguistic Interpretation? -- 1. Pragmatist Accounts of Meaning Grounds -- 2. Pragmatist Accounts of Interpretation -- 3. Meaning and Belief -- 4. Compositionality -- 5. Charity -- 6. Permutations -- 7. Familiarity -- 8. Reference and Causation -- 9. Projection -- 10. What Is (Compositional) Interpretation (of a Compositional Language)? -- 10. Neopragmatism and Logic: A Deflationary Proposal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neopragmatism -- 3. Logic as Target and Obstacle -- 4. Deflationism about Logical Relations -- 5. Dialectical Disposition Expressivism about Logical Connectives -- 6. Neopragmatist Metasemantics? -- 7. Conclusion -- Part IV. Value and Practice -- 11. Pragmatism in Practice -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Awkward Customers -- 3. The Pitfalls of Realism (1) Probability, Chance, Laws -- 4. The Pitfalls of Realism (2): The Case of Ethics -- 5. A Cautionary Tale -- 6. Will Truth Out? -- 12. Pragmatism and the Ontology of Art -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 13. The Subject Matter of "Subject Matter" and General Jurisprudence -- 1. Pragmatic Inferentialism -- 2. The Subject Matters of "Subject Matter" |
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3. The Subject Matters of General Jurisprudence -- 4. Conclusion -- 14. Pragmatism and the Prudential Good -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Methodological Pragmatism -- 3. A Model of Things from the Middle of Things -- 4. A Brief Case Study: Codifying Human Rights -- 5. A Lingering Question -- 6. Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume shows the broad value and interest of a flourishing approach to philosophical inquiry: neopragmatism. This language-first approach rejects metaphysical questions about the existence or nature of problematic entities or properties, instead focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words |
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Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to philosophical questions about the existence or nature of various troubling entities or properties. It seeks to un-ask distinctively metaphysical questions about these things by focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words instead: words like 'true', 'four', 'immoral', 'necessary', 'art', and so on. Once we have unmysterious naturalistic explanations of our practices of making assertions with these sorts of words, and of assessing them as true or false, our distinctly metaphysical worries about them should fade. Neopragmatism differs from more common expressivist accounts of the same issues because expressivism is almost always offered as a local view of some troubling vocabulary, presented against a more general representationalist background. Neopragmatists, on the other hand, endorse deflationary accounts of reference, representation, and truth, which makes such a contrast impossible. While neopragmatism has been on the scene since the 1980s, it has generally only been visible to theorists working on the very general issue of the relation of language to reality. When it comes to first-order philosophical issues such as the nature of time, or the various modals, or colour, or art, neopragmatism seems often simply not to be on the radar. This volume takes up the task of exploring the implications - direct and indirect - of the neopragmatist perspective for various first order philosophical issues |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Pragmatism.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism.
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pragmatism.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism.
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Pragmatism.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gert, Joshua, editor.
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| ISBN |
0192647709 |
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9780191915673 |
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019191567X |
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9780192647696 |
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0192647695 |
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9780192647702 |
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