Wandering significance : an essay on conceptual behavior / Mark Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Mark, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concepts.

Cognition.

Philosophy of mind.

Thought and thinking.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (691 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. Words such as colour, shape, solidity exemplify the commonplace conceptual tools we employ to describe and order the world around us. But the world's goods are complex in their behaviors and we often overlook the subtle adjustments that our evaluative terms undergoas their usage becomes gradually adapted to different forms of supportive circumstance. Wilson not only explains how these surprising strategi

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. WIDE SCREEN; 2. LOST CHORDS; 3. CLASSICAL GLUE; 4. THEORY FACADES; 5. THE PRACTICAL GO OF IT; 6. THE VIRTUES OF CRACKED REASONING; 7. LINGUISTIC WAYFARING; 8. SONG OF THE MASTER IDEA; 9. SEMANTIC MIMICRY; 10. THE CRITIC OF NATURE AND GENIUS; Index of topics; Index of authors

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-953230-3

1-280-96522-3

9786610965229

0-19-153344-0

1-4356-2268-5

OCLC:

746747100