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On truth and meaning : language, logic and the grounds of belief / Christopher Norris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norris, Christopher, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Continuum Publishing Group, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this new book Christopher Norris explores a range of contiguous issues in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind, language, and logic. 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 pinpoints their source in various failed attempts, after Quine, to make good the promise of a naturalised epistemology that would remedy those defects while not falling prey to the Quinean barrage of sceptical objections. Altogether Norris' book offers a wid
- Contents:
- Who's afraid of psychologism? : normativity, truth, and epistemic warrant
- Meaning, truth and causal explanation : the "humean condition" revisited
- Epistemology, language, and the realism debate
- The blank and the die : more dilemmas of post-empiricism
- Ethics, autonomy, and the grounds of belief
- Kripkenstein's monsters : anti-realism, scepticism, and the rule-following debate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- include index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611295394
- 9781281295392
- 1281295396
- 9781847144607
- 1847144608
- OCLC:
- 290598174
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