On Truth And Meaning: Language, Logic And the Grounds of Belief

Norris, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0826491286 / ISBN 13: 9780826491282

Editore: Continuum, New York, 1999

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• Titolo: On Truth And Meaning: Language, Logic And the Grounds of Belief
• Editore: Continuum, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0826491286
• ISBN 13: 9780826491282
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Philosophy

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Riassunto

Christopher Norris presents a wide-ranging and distinctively angled perspective on many of the most challenging topics in current philosophical debate and explores a range of issues in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind, language, and logic. The book marks a further stage in the author's project of developing a realist, truth-based approach that would point a way beyond the various unresolved dilemmas and dichotomies bequeathed by old-style logical empiricism.



In a series of closely argued chapters Norris draws out the two chief kinds of deficit - normative and causal-explanatory - that have characterised much recent work in the analytic line of descent. He gives a shrewd diagnostic account of the rift that opened up between the two traditions of contemporary philosophic thought, one consequence of which was the analytic failure to develop precisely those normative resources that were needed in order to break out of that impasse. The book also engages critically with the work of Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, Neil Tennant, and Crispin Wright, and mounts a vigorous challenge to the prominent strain of anti-realist thinking developed on logico-semantic and metaphysical grounds by Michael Dummett.

Informazioni sull?autore

Christopher Norris is the author of numerous books on aspects of philosophy, critical theory, and modern intellectual history. He is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff and has taught at many universities in India, Australia, Spain, Germany, Canada, China, the US, and elsewhere.