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When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy / Avner Baz.

Title
When words are called for : a defense of ordinary language philosophy / Avner Baz.
Author
Baz, Avner, 1964-
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Description
xv, 238 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Ordinary-language philosophy
  • Language and languages > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
9780674055223 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011039381
OCLC
755213493
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library