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Language, Logic and Epistemology

A Modal-Realist Approach

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  • © 2004

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  1. Christopher Norris

    1. Cardiff University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 1-15

  3. Derrida on Rousseau: Deconstruction as Philosophy of Logic

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 16-65

  4. The Limits of Whose Language?: Wittgenstein on Logic, Mathematics, and Science

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 66-110

  5. Modularity, Nativism, and Reference-Fixing: On Chomsky’s Internalist Assumptions

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 111-149

  6. The Perceiver’s Share (1): Realism, Scepticism, and Response-Dependence

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 150-184

  7. The Perceiver’s Share (2): Deconstructive Musicology and Cognitive Science

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 185-226

  8. Change, Conservation, and Crisis-Management in the Discourse of Analytic Philosophy

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 227-266

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 267-270
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About this book

Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date and with no further role than to prop up existing divisions of intellectual labour. He makes his case through some exceptionally acute revisionist readings of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Paul de Man, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. In each instance Norris stresses the value of bringing various trans-disciplinary perspectives to bear while none-the-less maintaining adequate standards of area-specific relevance and method. Most importantly he asserts the central role of recent developments in cognitive science as pointing a way beyond certain otherwise intractable problems in philosophy of mind and language.

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'Norris... presents an impressive depth, resuscitating Derrida as a logician, tackling Wittgenstein's anti-realist leanings and investigating the attempts of analytic philosophy to find a middle way between realism and its opponents.' - The Times Literary Supplement

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  • Cardiff University, UK

    Christopher Norris

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CHRISTOPHER NORRIS is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University and has also held visiting posts in California (Berkeley), USA, The City University of New York Graduate Centre, USA and the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is the author of more than twenty books to date on various aspects of philosophy and critical theory.

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