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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Wilson |
| ISBN: | 9780199269259 0199269254 |
| OCLC Number: | 219235961 |
| Description: | XX, 670 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Contents: | 1. Wide Screen -- (i) Our topics introduced -- (ii) The classical picture of concepts -- (iii) Conceptual evaluation -- (iv) Science should be used but not mentioned -- (v) Ur-philosophical currents -- (vi) Semantic finality -- (vii) Lessons of applied mathematics -- (viii) Why study concepts?; -- (ix) Mitigated skepticism -- (x) Exaggerated worries -- (xi) Our prospects -- 2. Lost Chords -- (i) Ur-philosophy's beckoning muse -- (ii) Objective extremism -- (iii) Tropospheric complacency -- (iv) Tools and tasks -- (v) Subjective extremism -- (vi) Amphibolic reveries -- (vii) Seasonality in conceptual evaluation. 3. Classical Glue -- (i) Under a predicate's sheltering wing -- (ii) Classical gluing -- (iii) Conceptual directivities -- (iv) Custodians of the conceptual realm -- (v) Wandering significance -- (vi) Overloaded contents -- (vii) Core directivities -- (viii) Relieving conceptual strain -- (ix) Attribute and concept -- (x) Explanation and understanding -- Appendix: Chief doctrines of the classical view of concepts -- 4. Theory Facades -- (i) Strange latitudes -- (ii) Inferential overexuberance -- (iii) Salvation through syntax -- (iv) A home in axiomatics -- (v) Distributed normativity -- (vi) Theory facades -- (vii) Variable reduction -- (viii) A funny thing happened on the way to the formalism -- (ix) Helpful troublemakers -- (x) The vicissitudes of rule validity -- 5. The Practical Go of It -- (i) Pre-pragmatist hunch -- (ii) Strands of practical advantage -- (iii) Linguistic engineering -- (iv) Pre-pragmatist prospects -- (v) Quine's rejection of classical gluing -- (vi) The flight from intension -- (viii) Honorable intensions -- (viii) Ill-founded philosophical projects -- (ix) Fear of attribute naming -- (x) Naming attributes ain't easy -- (xi) Ghost properties -- (xii) Hazy holism. 6. The Virtues of Cracked Reasoning -- (i) Interfacial accommodation -- (ii) Representational personality -- (iii) Presented contents -- (iv) Intimations of intensionality -- (v) Unsuitable personalities -- (vi) Analytic prolongation -- (vii) The Stokes phenomenon -- (viii) Weight -- (ix) Hardness -- (x) Linguistic management -- (xi) Foundational looping -- (xii) Mechanical torsions -- (xiii) Beads on a wire -- 7. Linguistic Wayfaring -- (i) Atlases and facades -- (ii) Quantities and quasi-quantities -- (iii) The veil of predication -- (iv) Machinal ideas -- (v) Lifts and free assertion -- (vi) Evolutionary shaping -- (vii) Nostalgia for lost empire -- (viii) The contextual control of data -- (ix) A paradox of classical grasp -- (x) Redness -- (xi) Naturally evolved linguistic systems -- 8. Song of the Master Idea -- (i) The beckoning concept -- (ii) Semantic epiphany -- (iii) Intimations of intensionality -- (iv) Our spying attention -- (v) True thought rigorization -- (vi) Teenage victory -- (vii) Correlational pictures -- (viii) I heard the voice of an algorithm -- (ix) Putting a picture to it -- (x) Retooling at sea -- (xi) Semantic detoxification -- (xii) Through conceptual thick and thin -- (xiii) Design imperatives. 9. Semantic Mimicry -- (i) The varieties of linguistic strategy -- (ii) Marching methods -- (iii) Algorithmic borrowing -- (iv) Struggling with a word -- (v) Newtonian counterfeits -- 10. The Critic of Nature and Genius -- (i) Mitigated expectations -- (ii) Sublime imagination -- (iii) The philosophical investigation of concepts -- (iv) Pursuits of 'truth' -- (v) A logical chicken or egg?; -- (vi) The critical role of 'truth-condition' -- (vii) Understanding others -- (viii) The schedules of our time -- (ix) An isthmus of a middle state. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Wilson. |
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Wandering Significance is a brilliant and highly original contribution to some of the main classical problems of philosophy, employing a novel (and very learned) combination of philosophy of language with the history and philosophy of science. Wilson thereby presents a radically new version of a "neo-pragmatist" approach to concepts and conceptual mastery (in the tradition of Dewey, Quine, and the later Wittgenstein) which far surpasses all previous versions in depth and specificity of detail. A major intellectual breakthrough. Michael Friedman, Stanford University Read more...
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