The Primacy of Metaphysics (ePub)
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of...
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of...
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior to the nature of thought and meaning, or not? Christopher Peacocke argues that the nature of the world - its metaphysics - is always involved in thought and meaning. Meaning is never prior to the nature of the world.
Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily
prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of
the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior to the nature of thought and meaning, or not? Christopher Peacocke argues that the nature of the world - its metaphysics - is always involved in thought and meaning. Meaning is never prior to the nature of the world.
Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily
prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of
the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Peacocke
Christopher Peacocke worked for many years in Oxford and London. He was successively a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London, and finally for twelve years Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2000 he became Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is currently Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University andHonorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London.
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- Autor: Christopher Peacocke
- 2019, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192572512
- ISBN-13: 9780192572516
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.01.2019
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