Subject: Philosophy Book Title: From a Deflationary Point of View
From a Deflationary Point of View
Horwich, Paul
, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925126-1
doi:10.1093/0199251266.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925126-1
doi:10.1093/0199251266.001.0001
Abstract:
This book features ten essays written by Paul Horwich in the 1980s and 1990s. They illustrate his deflationary perspective on the nature of truth, realism vs antirealism, the creation of meaning, epistemic rationality, the conceptual role of ‘ought,’ probabilistic models of scientific reasoning, and the trajectory of Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
Keywords: Paul Horwich, deflationary perspective, philosophy, truth, realism, meaning, rationality, scientific reasoning, Wittgenstein, ought
Keywords: Paul Horwich, deflationary perspective, philosophy, truth, realism, meaning, rationality, scientific reasoning, Wittgenstein, ought
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Three Forms of Realism
2. Realism and Truth
3. How to Choose Between Empirically Indistinguishable Theories
4. Meaning, Use, and Truth
5. On the Nature and Norms of Theoretical Commitment
6. Wittgensteinian Bayesianism
7. Deflating the Direction of Time
8. Gibbard's Theory of Norms
9. Science and Art
10. Wittgenstein's Meta-philosophical Development
Initial Publication of the Essays
Index
doi:10.1093/0199251266.001.0001
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