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Availability:In StockContributor:Sanford C. GoldbergSeries:Classic Philosophical ArgumentsPublish date:2016-06-13Pages:274
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107643383ISBN-10:1107643384UPC:9781107643383Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Mind & Body, MetaphysicsSize:9.84 x 6.87 x 0.58 inchesWeight:1.04Product ID:SCMA0TKQPP
The scenario of the brain in a vat, first aired thirty-five years ago in Hilary Putnam's classic paper, has been deeply influential in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. This collection of new essays examines the scenario and its philosophical ramifications and applications, as well as the challenges which it has faced. The essays review historical applications of the brain-in-a-vat scenario and consider its impact on contemporary debates. They explore a diverse range of philosophical issues, from intentionality, external-world scepticism, and the nature of truth, to the extended mind hypothesis, reference magnetism, and new versions of realism. The volume will be a rich and valuable resource for advanced students in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind and language, as well as anyone interested in the relations between language, thought and the world.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107643383ISBN-10:1107643384UPC:9781107643383Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Mind & Body, MetaphysicsSize:9.84 x 6.87 x 0.58 inchesWeight:1.04Product ID:SCMA0TKQPP
Goldberg, Sanford C.: - Sanford C. Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois, and Professorial Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Eidyn Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification (Cambridge, 2007), Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology (2010) and Assertion: A Philosophical Essay on Assertoric Speech (2015). He is also the editor of Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology (2007) and Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism: New Essays (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2015).
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