Reality and Representation by David Papineau

Reality and Representation by David Papineau

This book defends realism from a naturalistic perspective. Criticizing the view of philosophers such as Hilary Putnam, Michael Dummett and Donald Davidson, the author argues that representation is a natural, biological phenomenon, which needs to be analyzed in teleological terms, and he shows that such an analysis implies that reality and human judgement are conceptually quite independent of each other. David Papineau explains how it is possible for human beliefs to be justified as representations of reality. He then argues that humans can avoid error, and justify their beliefs, by taking practical steps to ensure that their various perceptual and inferential habits are reliable for truth. "Reality and Representation" is primarily concerned with judgements about the natural world, but it also attends to the problems of moral, mathematical, and logical truth, and offers special non-realist theories of these kinds of knowledge. It also contains discussion of linguistic meaning, perception, the nature of mental states, induction and the relevance of history of science to epistemology.

David Papineau is an academic philosopher and a professor of philosophy of science at King's College London whose work focuses on epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosphy of mind. He is the former editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and is the author of several books on philosophy.

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ISBN 13	9780631175520
ISBN 10	0631175520
Titel	Reality and Representation
Autor	David Papineau
Serie	Philosophical Theory
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-12-12
Seitenanzahl	264
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