A Study of Concepts - Brossura

Peacocke, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0262660970 ISBN 13: 9780262660976

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1995

Riassunto

This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.

Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question, What are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.

Particular concepts are also treated within the general framework: perceptual concepts, logical concepts, and the concept of belief are discussed in detail. The general theory is further applied in answering the question of how the ontology of concepts can be of use in classifying mental states, and in discussing the proper relation between philosophical and psychological theories of concepts. Finally, the theory of concepts is used to motivate a nonverificationist theory of the limits of intelligible thought.

Peacocke treats content as broad rather than narrow, and his account is nonreductive and non-Quinean. Yet Peacocke also argues for an interactive relationship between philosophical and psychological theories of concepts, and he plots many connections with work in cognitive psychology.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christopher Peacocke is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Product Description:

Philosophers from Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question, What are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relation to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262660970
• ISBN 13: 9780262660976
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285