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Auteur(s) : Peacocke, Christopher  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The primacy of metaphysics [Texte imprimé] / Christopher Peacocke

Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, copyright 2019

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-218 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 207-214. Index
This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics and the theory of meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics, how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum

Sujet(s) : Métaphysique  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  110 (23e éd.) = Métaphysique  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198835574. - ISBN 9780198835578 (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45567736w

Notice n° :  FRBNF45567736 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction ; Metaphysics and the theory of content ; Magnitudes ; Time and temporal content ; The self ; Numbers ; Ontology and intelligibility ; Conclusion: avenues for further development.