This volume shows the broad value and interest of a flourishing approach to philosophical inquiry: neopragmatism. This language-first approach rejects metaphysical questions about the existence or nature of problematic entities or properties, instead focusing our attention on our practices of using...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Gert, Joshua (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford ; New York, NY Oxford University Press [2023]
Schlagworte:	Pragmatismus Pragmatism Language and languages / Philosophy Postmodernism Pragmatisme Langage et langues / Philosophie Postmodernisme pragmatism Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	This volume shows the broad value and interest of a flourishing approach to philosophical inquiry: neopragmatism. This language-first approach rejects metaphysical questions about the existence or nature of problematic entities or properties, instead focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to philosophical questions about the existence or nature of various troubling entities or properties. It seeks to un-ask distinctively metaphysical questions about these things by focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words instead: words like 'true', 'four', 'immoral', 'necessary', 'art', and so on. Once we have unmysterious naturalistic explanations of our practices of making assertions with these sorts of words, and of assessing them as true or false, our distinctly metaphysical worries about them should fade. Neopragmatism differs from more common expressivist accounts of the same issues because expressivism is almost always offered as a local view of some troubling vocabulary, presented against a more general representationalist background. Neopragmatists, on the other hand, endorse deflationary accounts of reference, representation, and truth, which makes such a contrast impossible. While neopragmatism has been on the scene since the 1980s, it has generally only been visible to theorists working on the very general issue of the relation of language to reality. When it comes to first-order philosophical issues such as the nature of time, or the various modals, or colour, or art, neopragmatism seems often simply not to be on the radar. This volume takes up the task of exploring the implications - direct and indirect - of the neopragmatist perspective for various first order philosophical issues
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ISBN:	9780191915673 9780192647702
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780192894809.001.0001