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When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy /

A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream analy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baz, Avner, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The basic conflict: an initial characterization
  • The main arguments against ordinary language philosophy
  • Must philosophers rely on intuitions?
  • Contextualism and the burden of knowledge
  • Contextualism, anti-contextualism, and knowing as being in a position to give assurance
  • Conclusion: skepticism and the dialectic of (semantically pure) "knowledge"
  • Epilogue: ordinary language philosophy, Kant, and the roots of antinomial thinking.