Meaning Without Representation Expression, Truth, Normativity, and Naturalism

by Gross, Steven; Tebben, Nicholas; Williams, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780198722199
• ISBN10: 0198722192
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Steven Gross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with affiliations as well with the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. Gross has published on a variety of topics in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, including context-sensitivity, cognitive penetrability, innateness, and the nature of linguistic evidence. His current projects include papers on perceptual consciousness and on temporal representation.

NicholasTebben earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 2013, and is presently a lecturer in philosophy at Towson University. He specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of language, and his work has appeared in Synthese, among other journals.

Michael Williams is a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main interests are epistemology, philosophy of language, (both approached from a broadly pragmatist standpoint) and the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Groundless Belief (1977; 2nd edition 1999), Unnatural Doubts (1992; 2nd edition 1996) and Problems of Knowledge (2001), as well as numerous articles. He is currently working on a book on different forms of philosophical skepticism with the working title Curious Researches: Reflections on Skepticism Ancient and Modern.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Anti-Representational Semantics: Four Themes, Nicholas Tebben
TRUTH AND REFERENCE
1. Deflationism, Pragmatism, and Metaphysics, Rebecca Kukla and Eric Winsberg
2. Does the Expressive Role of 'True' Preclude Deflationary Davidsonian Semantics?, Steven Gross
3. An Inferential Account of Referential Success, Alexis Burgess
4. Representation and the Modern Correspondence Theory of Truth, Michael Glanzberg
5. Deflationism, Truth, and Accuracy, Dean Pettit
EXPRESSION AND EXPRESSIVISM
6. What Would an Expressivist Semantics Be?, Mark Richard
7. Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth: Conditionals and Epistemic Modals, Mark Schroeder
8. Expression: Acts, Products, and Meaning, Dorit Bar-On
9. Global Expressivism and the Truth in Representation, Allan Gibbard
10. The Limits of Expressivism, Anandi Hattiangadi
NORMATIVITY
11. Pragmatism and the Price of Truth, Michael Patrick Lynch
12. Pragmatism and the Function of Truth, Cheryl Misak
13. Life is not a Box-Score: Lived Normativity, Abstract Evaluation, and the Is/Ought Distinction, Mark Lance
NATURALISM
14. Idling and Sidling Towards Philosophical Peace, Huw Price
15. Is (Determinate) Meaning a Naturalistic Phenomenon?, Paul Boghossian
16. Kripke's Wittgenstein, Paul Horwich
Index