Pascal Engel
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La dispute: Une introduction a la philosophie analytique (Paradoxe) (French Edition) (1997) 10 exemplaren
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LA LOGIQUE DE CE QUI N’EXISTE PAS 1 exemplaar
Y a- il des degrés de vérité ? 1 exemplaar
L’ANTIPSYCHOLOGISME EST-IL IRRESISTIBLE? 1 exemplaar
MILL ET LE PROBLEME DES LOIS EN SCIENCES MORALES 1 exemplaar
LE POSITIVISME ET LA PSYCHOLOGIE 1 exemplaar
LE CONTENU DE LA PERCEPTION EST IL CONCEPTUEL ? 1 exemplaar
Comment ne pas croire au Père Noël 1 exemplaar
JAMES ET L’ETHIQUE DE LA CROYANCE 1 exemplaar
LA VERITE MALGRE TOUT 1 exemplaar
LA VALEUR DE VERITE 1 exemplaar
AKRASIA PRATIQUE ET AKRASIA EPISTEMIQUE 1 exemplaar
L’institution du langage 1 exemplaar
RETOUR AVAL 1 exemplaar
LA SECONDE MORT DU POSITIVISME LOGIQUE 1 exemplaar
Et si finalement Russell avait raison ? 1 exemplaar
ARISTOTE EST IL UN DEFLATIONNISTE ? 1 exemplaar
LA RATIONALITE EST-ELLE INCODIFIABLE? 1 exemplaar
PHILOSOPHIE DE LA PENSEE LOGICO-MATHÉMATIQUE: Logique, raisonnement et normes de rationalité 1 exemplaar
LA LOGIQUE PEUT-ELLE MOUVOIR L’ESPRIT? 1 exemplaar
Vies parallèles : Rougier et Cavaillès 1 exemplaar
LA GRAMMAIRE DE L’ASSENTIMENT REVISITEE 1 exemplaar
DISPOSITIONS A AGIR ET VOLONTE DE CROIRE 1 exemplaar
PEUT-ON NATURALISER LE PLATONISME MATHEMATIQUE ? 1 exemplaar
HERMENEUTIQUE, LANGAGE ET VERITE 1 exemplaar
SOMMES-NOUS RESPONSABLES DE NOS CROYANCES ? 1 exemplaar
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DISPOSITIONS, CONTREFACTUELS ET POTENTIALITES 1 exemplaar
NORMES LOGIQUES ET EVOLUTION 1 exemplaar
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Like Rorty, I have trouble seeing any way round objections to the correspondence theory of truth, so I'm firmly in his camp (wacky though it may seem): There's no correspondence between sentences and reality, the marginal utility of a statement being "true" (and not just "useful") is minimal and we should instead satisfy ourselves for descriptions of the world we find to be useful without caring how, whether or why they map onto some intangible external thing called reality.
Engel's arguments strike me as technical and implausible, since his first move is to surrender a large part of the ground by conceding there are real problems with correspondence - I doubt I do him justice, but he's reduced to saying things like 'correspondence or no, we *do* talk in terms which assume there is such a truth, and that mode of discourse in itself has some essential value and meaning which would be lost were we to relegate ourselves to merely finding sentences useful'.
I'm not persuaded, and Rorty's brilliant writing elsewhere (especially Philosophy and Social Hope and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity) heaps grist to his wacky gallic mill.
Lastly, this book is short - it's about an hour's read, partly comprises a book review by Rorty of Engel's book on truth which is available online, and the copy I purchased was absurdly expensive.
One day the world may be turned on to (the recently deceased) Richard Rorty, but this isn't the book to do it.… (meer)