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Metaphysics of Representation

J. Robert G. Williams
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      Representation is puzzling. Physical events in our heads andsounds inour mouths come to be 'about' the worldaround us, equipping us to think and talk about anything fromthe mostfundamentalregularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip.InThe Metaphysics of Representation, Robert Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language arereduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of perception and intention. This most fundamental layer of representation is grounded in the functions thesestructures have to cause and be caused by events in the world. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, gives new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offers new solutions to long-standing problems.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: J. Robert G. Williams EAN: 9780198850205 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 404 g HEIGHT: 213 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-01-24 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language WIDTH: 141 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of mind

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      J. Robert G. Williams is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining Leeds in 2005, he studied as a graduate at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. He works on philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a particular focus on the metaphysics of representation and the nature of indeterminacy.
      Representation is puzzling. Physical events in our heads andsounds inour mouths come to be 'about' the worldaround us, equipping us to think and talk about anything fromthe mostfundamentalregularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip.InThe Metaphysics of Representation, Robert Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language arereduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of perception and intention. This most fundamental layer of representation is grounded in the functions thesestructures have to cause and be caused by events in the world. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, gives new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offers new solutions to long-standing problems.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: J. Robert G. Williams EAN: 9780198850205 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 404 g HEIGHT: 213 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-01-24 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language WIDTH: 141 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of mind

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      J. Robert G. Williams is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining Leeds in 2005, he studied as a graduate at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. He works on philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a particular focus on the metaphysics of representation and the nature of indeterminacy.

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