Ebook {Epub PDF} Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour by Mark Wilson

 · "Wandering Significance is a brilliant and highly original contribution to some of the main classical problems of philosophy, employing a novel (and very learned) combination of philosophy of language with the history and philosophy of science. Wilson thereby presents a radically new version of a "neo-pragmatist" approach to concepts and conceptual mastery (in the tradition of Dewey, Quine, and ISBN Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behavior. Wandering Significance.: Mark Wilson. Oxford University Press, - Philosophy - pages. 0 Author: Mark Wilson. Wilson, Mark. Wandering significance: an essay on conceptual behavior / Mark Wilson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Concepts. 2. Cognition. 3. Philosophy of mind. 4. Thought and thinking. 5. Psycholinguistics. I. Title. BDW53 —dc22 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.

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"Wandering Significance is a brilliant and highly original contribution to some of the main classical problems of philosophy, employing a novel (and very learned) combination of philosophy of language with the history and philosophy of science. Wilson thereby presents a radically new version of a "neo-pragmatist" approach to concepts and conceptual mastery (in the tradition of Dewey, Quine, and the later Wittgenstein) which far surpasses all previous versions in depth and specificity of detail. Abstract. Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. He combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour Mark Wilson. The magnum opus of a brilliant maverick philosopher; Fundamentally reappraises the relationship between language, concepts, and the world; A highly ambitious, groundbreaking work in the philosophy of language and science.