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Objectivity and the Parochial

By Charles Travis

Objectivity and the Parochial

By Charles Travis

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Thought, to be thought at all, must be about a world independent of us. But thinking takes capacities for thought, which inevitably shape thought's objects. What would count as something being green is, somehow, fixed by what we, who have being green in mind, are prepared to recognize. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, is not independent of us. So our thought cannot really be about an independent world. We are confronted with an apparent paradox. Much philosophy, from Locke to Kant to Frege to Wittgenstein, to Hilary Putnam and John McDowell today, is a reaction to this paradox. Charles Travis presents a set of eleven essays, each working in its own way towards dissolving this air of paradox. The key to his account of thought and world is the idea of the parochial: features of our thought which need not belong to all thought.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2010-12-16
Publication Date:
2010-12-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199596212
ISBN13:
9780199596218
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
719 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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