The Metaphysics of Representation (PDF)
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought-and from there putting those thoughts into words-acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most...
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought-and from there putting those thoughts into words-acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip, be either true or false? In The Metaphysics of Representation, J. Robert G. Williams tells a story about how representational
properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of
perception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of representation is explained in terms of the functions they have to communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, give new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to long-standing problems.
properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of
perception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of representation is explained in terms of the functions they have to communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, give new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to long-standing problems.
Autoren-Porträt von J. Robert G. Williams
J. Robert G. Williams is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining Leeds in 2005, he studied as a graduate at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. He works on philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a particular focus on the metaphysics of representation and the nature of indeterminacy.
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- Autor: J. Robert G. Williams
- 2020, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192590596
- ISBN-13: 9780192590596
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2020
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