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The Metaphysics of Meaning

By Jerrold J. Katz

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1992
ISBN
9780262610827, 0262610825, 9780262111515, 0262111519, 9780585020426
LCC
P106 .K2995 1990
Open Library ID
OL14975342M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
53 MB (55361755 bytes)
Pages
372\360
Topic
Physics
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the ''linguistic turn'' in twentieth-century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism that emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately proved. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy. This conception, inspired by Moore, explains why attempts to naturalize linguistics and logic, and perhaps ethics, will fail. He offers a Platonist view of such disciplines, justifying it as the best explanation of their autonomy, their objectivity, and their normativity. Jerrold J. Katz is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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