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Pragmatism and reference /

Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boersema, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The descriptivist/cluster account
  • The causal account
  • A Wittgensteinian account
  • The big three : Peirce, James, Dewey
  • Contemporary American : Putnam, Elgin, Rorty
  • Across the pond : Eco, Apel, Habermas
  • Individuation and similarity
  • Haecceities and essentialism
  • Neptune and nemesis.