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Objectivity and the Parochial

By Charles Travis

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0199596212, 9780199596218
LCC
BD220 .T73 2011
Google Books ID
WPI1bBPfquIC
Open Library ID
OL24808332M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1302747 bytes)
Pages
370\370
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Thought, to be thought at all, must be about a world independent of us. But thinking takes capacities for thought, which inevitably shape thought's objects. What would count as something being green is, somehow, fixed by what we, who have being green in mind, are prepared to recognize. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, is not independent of us. So our thought cannot really be about an independent world. We are confronted with an apparent paradox. Much philosophy, from Locke to Kant to Frege to Wittgenstein, to Hilary Putnam and John McDowell today, is a reaction to this paradox. Charles Travis presents a set of eleven essays, each working in its own way towards dissolving this air of paradox. The key to his account of thought and world is the idea of the parochial: features of our thought which need not belong to all thought.

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