Objectivity and the parochial
By: Charles Travis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780199596218
Subjects: Objectivity; Thought and thinking
Description: Charles Travis investigates a puzzling problem in philosophy. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. 'Objectivity and the Parochial' suggests how we might resolve this paradox.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: What laws of logic say; title: Frege's target; title: The twilight of empiricism; title: Psychologism; title: Morally alien thought; title: To represent as so; title: The proposition's progress; title: Truth and merit; title: The shape of the conceptual; title: Thought's social nature; title: Faust's way.