Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

Goldberg, Sanford C.

ISBN 10: 0521880483 / ISBN 13: 9780521880480

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Goldberg explores the nature of linguistic knowledge communication presenting a novel argument for familiar anti-individualistic views. Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506. . 2007. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521880483
• ISBN 13: 9780521880480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Sanford Goldberg argues that a proper account of the communication of knowledge through speech has anti-individualistic implications for both epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. In Part 1 he offers a novel argument for anti-individualism about mind and language, the view that the contents of one's thoughts and the meanings of one’s words depend for their individuation on one’s social and natural environment. In Part 2 he discusses the epistemic dimension of knowledge communication, arguing that the epistemic characteristics of communication-based beliefs depend on features of the cognitive and linguistic acts of the subject’s social peers. In acknowledging an ineliminable social dimension to mind, language, and the epistemic categories of knowledge, justification, and rationality, his book develops fundamental links between externalism in the philosophy of mind and language, on the one hand, and externalism is epistemology, on the other.

Book Description

In acknowledging an ineliminable social dimension to mind, language, and the epistemic categories of knowledge, justification, and rationality, this book develops fundamental links between externalism in the philosophy of mind and language, on the one hand, and externalism in epistemology, on the other.