Metaphysics of Representation

Metaphysics of Representation

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Williams, J. Robert G.
OUP Oxford
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought-and from there putting those thoughts into words-acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip, be either true or false? In The Metaphysics of Representation, J. Robert G. Williams tells a story about how representationalproperties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties ofperception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of representation is explained in terms of the functions they have to communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, give new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to long-standing problems.
EAN 9780192590596
ISBN 0192590596
Binding Ebook
Publisher OUP Oxford
Publication date January 9, 2020
Pages 240
Language English
Country United Kingdom
Authors Williams, J. Robert G.
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