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The Pittsburgh school of philosophy : Sellars, McDowell, Brandom /
In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ;
42. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are distinctive because they occupy a norm-governed "space of reasons." Along with Sellars, Robert Brandom and John McDowell have tried to work out the implications of that idea for understanding knowledge, thought, norms, language, and intentional action. The aim of this book is to introduce their shared views on those topics, while also charting a few key disputes between them |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 156 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136223112 1136223118 1283586231 9781283586238 9780203097502 0203097505 9781136223105 113622310X |