1st Edition
Meaning and Structure Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers
By Jaroslav Peregrin
Copyright 2001
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Meaning and Structure, Peregrin argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and their followers, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by Ferdinand de Saussure. The author reconstructs de Saussure's view of language, linking it to modern formal logic and mathematics, and reveals close... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Whys and Hows of Structuralism: What is meaning?; What is structuralism?; Parts, whole and structures: prolegomena to formal theory; Structuralism of Postanalytic Philosophers: Translation and structure: Willard Van Orman Quine; Truth and structure: Donald Davidson; Inference and structure: Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom; Semantic Structure of Language and of its Expressions: Meaning and inferential role; The ’natural’ and the ’formal’; The structures of expressions; Conclusion; Index.
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Jaroslav Peregrin
