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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism By Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (University of Cambridge)


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This volume presents the Tilburg University Descartes Lectures delivered by Huw Price in 2008, where he discusses his distinctive version of the representationalism/naturalism combination. Includes critical commentary by four other major philosophers, and a response from Price. Essential course reading for advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism Summary

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his Rene Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism Reviews

'A fascinating set of lectures, commentaries, and replies. I have learned much from the arguments that Huw Price and the commentators advance.' Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan
'Price's book is a refreshing and commendable addition to recent work on representationalism. His arguments are novel and forceful.' Analysis and Metaphysics
'If I could make it required reading for all first-year philosophy graduate students, I would.' Joshua Gert, Mind

About Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Huw Price is Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Facts and the Function of Truth (1988), Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point (1996) and Naturalism without Mirrors (2011). He is co-editor (with Richard Corry) of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (2007).

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors; Preface; Part I. The Descartes Lectures 2008: 1. Naturalism without representationalism; 2. Two expressivist programmes, two bifurcations; 3. Pluralism, 'world' and the primacy of science; Part II. Commentaries: 4. Pragmatism: all or some?; 5. Naturalism, deflationism and the relative priority of language and metaphysics; 6. How pragmatists can be local expressivists; Part III. Postscript and Replies: 7. Prospects for global expressivism; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521279062
9780521279062
0521279062
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (University of Cambridge)
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Cambridge University Press
2013-05-16
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