Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 168 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g
An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour
Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 168 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-926925-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Magnum opus from a brilliant maverick philosopher
- Fundamental reappraisal of the relationship between language, concepts, and the world
- Highly ambitious, groundbreaking in the philosophy of language and science
Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. Words such as colour, shape, solidity exemplify the commonplace conceptual tools we employ to describe and order the world around us. But the world's goods are complex in their behaviors and we often overlook the subtle adjustments that our evaluative terms undergo as their usage becomes gradually adapted to different forms of supportive circumstance. Wilson not only explains how these surprising strategies of hidden management operate, but also tells the astonishing story of how faulty schemes and great metaphysical systems sometimes spring from a simple failure to recognize the innocent wanderings to which our descriptive words are heir.
Wilson combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability.
Contents
- 1 Wide Screen
- 2 Lost Chords
- 3 Classical Glue
- 4 Theory Facades
- 5 The Practical Go of It
- 6 The Virtues of Cracked Reasoning
- 7 Linguistic Wayfaring
- 8 Song of the Master Idea
- 9 Semantic Mimicry
- 10 The Critic of Nature and Genius
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of philosophy, linguists and psychologists
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
