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From a deflationary point of view / Paul Horwich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horwich, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Truth--Deflationary theory.
- Truth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- "This book features ten essays written by Paul Horwich in the 1980s and 1990s. They illustrate his deflationary perspective on the nature of truth, realism vs antirealism, the creation of meaning, epistemic rationality, the conceptual role of ‘ought,’ probabilistic models of scientific reasoning, and the trajectory of Wittgenstein’s philosophy."-- Title details screen.
- Contents:
- Essay 1. Three forms of realism (1982)
- Essay 2. Realism and truth (1996)
- Essay 3. How to choose between empirically indistinguishable theories (1982)
- Essay 4. Meaning, use, and truth (1995)
- Essay 5. On the nature and norms of theoretical commitment (1991)
- Essay 6. Wittgensteinian Bayesianism (1993)
- Essay 7. Deflating the direction of time (1993)
- Essay 8. Gibbard's theory of norms (1993)
- Essay 9. Science and art (2001)
- Essay 10. Wittgenstein's meta-philosophical development (2004).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-90659-X
- 0-19-153068-9
- OCLC:
- 912900249
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