The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy

Sellars, McDowell, Brandom
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-81355-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are distinctive because they occupy a norm-governed "space of reasons." Along with Sellars, Robert Brandom and John McDowell have tried to work out the implications of that idea for understanding knowledge, thought, norms, language, and intentional action. The aim of this book is to introduce their shared views on those topics, while also charting a few key disputes between them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maher, Chauncey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Given 2. Belief 3. Following Rules 4. Meaning 5. Knowledge without the Given 6. Intentional Action Concluding Suggestions Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chauncey Maher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University in 2008.