A W Moore

Gebundenes Buch

Language, World, and Limits

Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics

Beschreibung

A.W. Moore presents eighteen of his philosophical essays, written since 1986, on representing how things are. He sketches out the nature, scope, and limits of representation through language, and pays particular attention to linguistic representation, states of knowledge, the character of what is represented, and objective facts or truths.

Autor

A.W. Moore is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he is also Vice-Principal. He studied Philosophy as an undergraduate in Cambridge and did postgraduate work in Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Michael Dummett. He has held teaching and research positions at University College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge, and is one of Bernard Williams' literary executors. He is joint editor, with Lucy O'Brien, of the journal Mind. In 2016 he wrote and presented the series A History of the Infinite on BBC Radio 4.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780198823643
• ISBN-10: 0198823649
• Artikelnr.: 56926501