Meaning without representation : essays on truth, expression, normativity, and naturalism /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	viii, 379 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Semantics (Philosophy) Meaning (Philosophy) Truth. Expression. Naturalism. Normativity (Ethics) Semantics (Philosophy) Truth.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10380391

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Other authors / contributors:	Gross, Steven, 1965- editor. Tebben, Nicholas, editor. Williams, Michael, 1947 July 6- editor.
ISBN:	9780198722199 0198722192
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism. Particular attention is given to deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation. The chapters further various fundamental debates in metaphysics-for example, concerning the question of finding a place for moral properties in a naturalistic world-view-and illuminate the relation of the recent neo-pragmatist revival to the expressivist stream in analytic philosophy of language.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Part I. Introduction
Anti - Representational Semantics: Four Themes
Part II. Truth and Reference
1. Deflationism, Pragmatism, and Metaphysics
2. Does the Expressive Role of True Preclude Deflationary Davidsonian Semantics?
3. An Inferential Account of Referential Success
4. Representation and the Modern Correspondence Theory of Truth
5. Deflationism, Truth, and Accuracy
Part III. Expression and Expressivism
6. What Would an Expressivist Semantics Be?
7. Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth: Conditionals and Epistemic Modals
8. Expression: Acts, Products, and Meaning
9. Global Expressivism and the Truth in Representation
10. The Limits of Expressivism
Part IV. Normativity
11. Pragmatism and the Price of Truth
12. Pragmatism and the Function of Truth
13. Life Is Not a Box-Score: Lived Normativity, Abstract Evaluation, and the Is/Ought Distinction
Part V. Naturalism
14. Idling and Sidling Toward Philosophical Peace
15. Is (Determinate) Meaning a Naturalistic Phenomenon?
16. Kripke's Wittgenstein
Index

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