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The Philosophical Inquiry

Towards a Global Account

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

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The Philosophical Inquiry

Towards a Global Account

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

Develops a "global theory" on the nature of philosophy.

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University Press of America

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0761823174

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How Do Proper Names Really Work?

A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

By: Claudio Ferreira-Costa

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A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

By: Claudio Ferreira-Costa

For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110986175

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Philosophical Semantics

Reintegrating Theoretical Philosophy

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

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Philosophical Semantics

Reintegrating Theoretical Philosophy

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

This book offers an innovative systematic approach to the problems of meaning, reference and related issues, unifying in promising ways some of the best insights, not only of exponential philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege, but also of some influential later theorists like Michael Dummett, Ernst Tugendhat, John Searle and Donald Williams. Moreover, it exposes some main errors popularized by clever formalist-oriented philosophers, from Willard Van Orman Quine to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. In this way, it shows how some older major approaches could regain their central importance and how the cartography of philosophy of language could be once more redrawn. The book is clearly written, and will be of interest to anyone with basic training in analytic philosophy.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527527425

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Lines of Thought

Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

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Lines of Thought

Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

Lines of Thought: Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions is a highly innovative and powerfully argued book. According to the author, noted Brazilian philosopher Claudio Costa, many philosophical ideas that today are widely seen as old-fashioned and outdated should not be dismissed, but instead should be extensively reworked and reformulated. This also means that contemporary analytical philosophy should begin to question many of its most cherished views and reconsider some of the current ways of looking at philosophy. Following this path, in the philosophy of language, the author suggests replacing the causal-historical view of proper names with a much more sophisticated form of descriptive-internalist theory able to meet Kripke’s challenges. In epistemology, he argues convincingly that we should return to the old traditional tripartite definition of knowledge, reformulated in a much more complex form in which Gettier’s problem would disappear. The correct response to skepticism about the external world should not be to adopt new and more fanciful views, but rather to carefully analyze the different kinds of reality attributions implied by the argument and responsible for its equivocal character. In metaphysics, he argues for a more complex reformulation of the traditional compatibilist approach of free will, relating it intrinsically with the causal theory of action and making it powerful enough to assimilate the best elements of hierarchical views. Finally, according to the author, contemporary analytic philosophy suffers from a lack of comprehensiveness. In response to this, the papers in this collection aim to restore something of a broader perspective, salvaging isolated insights by integrating them into more comprehensive views.

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The Philosophical Inquiry

Towards a Global Account

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

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Develops a "global theory" on the nature of philosophy.

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Lines of Thought

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Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions

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How Do Proper Names Really Work?

A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

By: Claudio Ferreira-Costa

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A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

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Lines of Thought

The Philosophical Inquiry

The Philosophical Inquiry

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Lines of Thought

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