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Beschreibung
Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in the subject. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. One question running through many of the essays is how much can be expected from a philosophical account of a person's understanding the meaning of something, and whether it can succeed without implying that the person understands many other things as well. Five of the essays focus on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and at least that many others work with ideas derived from Wittgenstein. In a helpful introduction Stroud explains how the essays are related to one another and how some of his ideas about these questions developed over the years.
Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in the subject. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. One question running through many of the essays is how much can be expected from a philosophical account of a person's understanding the meaning of something, and whether it can succeed without implying that the person understands many other things as well. Five of the essays focus on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and at least that many others work with ideas derived from Wittgenstein. In a helpful introduction Stroud explains how the essays are related to one another and how some of his ideas about these questions developed over the years.
Über den Autor
Barry Stroud is Mills Professor of Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hume (1977, winner of the Matchette Prize awarded by the American Philosophical Association), The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (1984), The Quest for Reality (1999), and another volume of philosophical essays, Understanding Human Knowledge (2000).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Wittgenstein and Logical Necessity (1965)

  • 2: Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation (1968)

  • 3: Inference, Belief, and Understanding (1979)

  • 4: Evolution and the Necessities of Thought (1981)

  • 5: Wittgenstein's 'Treatment' of the Quest for 'a language which describes my inner experiences and which only I myself can understand' (1983)

  • 6: Wittgenstein on Meaning, Understanding, and Community (1990)

  • 7: Quine's Physicalism (1990)

  • 8: Meaning, Understanding, and Translation (1990)

  • 9: The Background of Thought (1991)

  • 10: Quine on Exile and Acquiescence (1995)

  • 11: Mind, Meaning, and Practice (1996)

  • 12: The Theory of Meaning and the Practice of Communication (1998)

  • 13: Private Objects, Physical Objects, and Ostension (2000)

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199252145
ISBN-10: 0199252149
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stroud, Barry
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Barry Stroud
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2002
Gewicht: 0,363 kg
Artikel-ID: 133191682