When words are called for
Subtitle: in defense of ordinary language
By: Avner Baz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780674055223
Subjects: Ordinary-language philosophy; Philosophy; Language and languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The basic conflict: an initial characterization; title: The main arguments against ordinary language philosophy; title: Must philosophers rely on intuitions?; title: Contextualism and the burden of knowledge; title: Contextualism, anti-contextualism, and knowing as being in a position to give assurance; title: Conclusion: skepticism and the dialectic of (semantically pure) "knowledge"; title: Epilogue: ordinary language philosophy, Kant, and the roots of antinomial thinking.