Baz, Avner,

When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy / Avner Baz. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. - 238 p.

The basic conflict: an initial characterization -- The main arguments against ordinary language philosophy -- Must philosophers rely on intuitions? -- Contextualism and the burden of knowledge -- Contextualism, anti-contextualism, and knowing as being in a position to give assurance -- Conclusion: skepticism and the dialectic of (semantically pure) "knowledge" -- Epilogue: ordinary language philosophy, Kant, and the roots of antinomial thinking. HKBU library

YT2025 M10

9780674055223


Ordinary-language philosophy.
Language and languages--Philosophy.

B828 / B362 W 2012