1st Edition
Philosophical Representation Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism
By Ori Simchen
Copyright 2023
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude.
Philosophy is awash with theoretical representations, which raises the question of how we should regard them. This book argues that... Read more
Preface
1. Philosophical Explanation
2. Justified Attitudinal Realism
3. Attitudinal Instrumentalism in Semantics
4. Semantics and Ordinary Language
5. Propositions and What is Said
6. The Content Program
7. Rules and Representation
Postscript
Biography
Ori Simchen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness (2017), and Necessary Intentionality: A Study in the Metaphysics of Aboutness (2012).
