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Truly Understood

Christopher Peacocke
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      In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the world. Peacocke develops a positive general theory of understanding based on the idea that concepts are individuated by theirfundamental reference rules, which contrasts sharply with conceptual-role, inferentialist, and pragmatist approaches to meaning. He treats thought about the material world, about places and times, and about the self within the framework of this general account, and extends the theory to explain the normativedimensions of content, which he believes are founded in the network of connections between concepts and the level of reference and truth. In the second part of the book, Peacocke explores the application of this account to some problematic mental phenomena, including the conception of many subjects of experience, concepts of conscious states, mental action, and our ability to think about the contents of our own and others' mental states.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Peacocke EAN: 9780199239443 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 692 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-04-24 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy of mind

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      In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the world. Peacocke develops a positive general theory of understanding based on the idea that concepts are individuated by theirfundamental reference rules, which contrasts sharply with conceptual-role, inferentialist, and pragmatist approaches to meaning. He treats thought about the material world, about places and times, and about the self within the framework of this general account, and extends the theory to explain the normativedimensions of content, which he believes are founded in the network of connections between concepts and the level of reference and truth. In the second part of the book, Peacocke explores the application of this account to some problematic mental phenomena, including the conception of many subjects of experience, concepts of conscious states, mental action, and our ability to think about the contents of our own and others' mental states.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Peacocke EAN: 9780199239443 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 692 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-04-24 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy of mind

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