Language and World by Richard Gaskin
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory.-
The Ontology of Music Groups
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Pure Form in Matter
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The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities
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The Ontology of Relations
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Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics
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Thisness Presentism
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Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar
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Fundamental Causation
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Freedom of the Will
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Concrete Particulars
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Powers, Parts and Wholes
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Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
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Relational Passage of Time
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A Case for Necessitarianism
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Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience
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The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
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A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
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Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities
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Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons
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Properties, Powers and Structures
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Nominalism about Properties
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The Puzzle of Existence
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Ground and Fundamentality in Plato and Aristotle
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The Future of the Philosophy of Time
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Metametaphysics and the Sciences
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation
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E.J. Lowe and Ontology
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The Metaphysics of Propositions
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About Haecceity
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Inductive Metaphysics
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The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe
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A Dynamic Theory of Hylomorphism
"Gaskin has produced a highly provocative work, delivered with his usual erudition, elegance, and quiet humourAlthough he swims against the current, he makes good head way against numerous orthodoxies and should give pause to all, no matter one’s assumptions about the connection of language to mind and world." – John Collins, University of East Anglia, UK
"This book is an impressive mix of scholarship, rigorous argument, and controversial philosophical doctrine that makes a novel contribution to contemporary work on the metaphysics of language." – Graham Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and literary criticism. His main book publications include Experience and the World’s Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell’s Empiricism (2006), The Unity of the Proposition (2008), Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (2013), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge 2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367902582 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367902583 |
| Title | Language and World |
| Author | Richard Gaskin |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Metaphysics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2020-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
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