Epistemology R R R
By Cora Diamond
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I. Conant and Rorty on realism: how Conant sets up the issue and how Rorty responds irs will des ri e he disp e e wee Ror y a d o a a o realis H R R R T room R R between R R R T H R R Realism 1. The thesis that the Thing-in-Itself is a condition of the possibility of knowledge T T
Cora Diamond is Kenan Professor of Philosophy emerita at the University of Virginia. Her works have analyzed philosophical problems in many areas, including Witgenstein, Frege, Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Literature. Her notable works include “What Nonsense Might Be”, an analysis of Fregean nonsense, as well as numerous writings on all of Witgenstein’s lifetime work. She has also been noted for her writing on animal rights, including the article “Eating Meat and Eating People” published by Cambridge University Press.
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of appearances about the way the world is in itself. think knowledge Realism 2. The thesis that objectivity is non-perspectival mirror purifed T not peculiarly ours metaphysically privileged mode of description T Rortianism 1. The thesis that solidarity should replace objectivity T objectivity T solidarity T in light of how things are with the world— to some other person(s) T T Rortianism 2. The thesis of linguistic idealism T
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T room R R T R R R R R R P H H H P H R T R T R R T R R R R R R R R R R R R R
II. How to approach the question of the disappearing options have ried o fi re o how Ror y s ar e s wor i his dis ssio s of
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R R R R R T R R 1 T R own H T R R R R Consequences of Pragmatism R R relocated R operating within language-games T R R R T T R Tractatus T R
III. Rorty on language-games: starting from Putnam Ror y a es his views o e a i d of e e sio of i e s ei s a d Hilary P P
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R R against R H R R 2 P R T P R T P R are R P R H is R R R T H R lots of things T appropriately sayable
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what the words “red” and “tomato” mean the way the tomato is having that feature T R T what we take to be justifcation for taking-true 3 the way the thing is R R R T T R made to have thus-and-such a feature R R 4 H Rorty and his Critics R
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T R R R P a model of the use of words Vorbild H Philosophical Investigations T Investigations R R PI R T Investigations Tractatus into H into Tractatus Investigations R R R seeing into R Investigations R R T R T R R
IV. Rorty, Realism and the model of language-games Ror y dis issed he se io s o e hod i Philosophical Investigations wi h R T
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R R Tractatus Philosophical Investigations Tractatus Philosophical Investigations generality through T all T all T underneath Philosophical Investigations warning T into R R R R R R T T space R R R R T can recommends 5 R think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar T 6 R T 7 T
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V. The Tractatus and the disappearance of options i e s ei oo he e pressio Satz whi h does o prior o ei picturing Vorbild picture-proposition P of that 8 T Tractatus H Tractatus T P realism T Tractatus R R Tractatus H
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a priori Tractatus H T Tractatus Tractatus Tractatus T use T R Tractatus T things frame diferent expectations what appears as such reference, and what has various ties to experiential language those bodies them Tractatus them R T
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R real 9 R genuinely out there T R get at R more R real R R not foat free of the world R H Tractatus T Tractatus out there T Tractatus Tractatus- Tractatus-trayf Tractatus T R R R R trayf R
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T T R R T Tractatus-kosher R R R 10 T R trayf R There there dinosaurs this feature dinosaurs were R trayf R R causally representationally R trayf the feature of dinosaur-oviparousness Here the dinosaurs themselves set, or seem to set, a standard T R
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P R within T R partitioning and responsible T R T R R T R representationally independent. T R truths R R R R R T R Tractatus Commentaries R T empty substance causes within
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T T beyond T T R T T same dog trayf Brief excursus on Rorty and philosophical method R R R T R T H T T R T relativity of a feature to a description R R T R R R T disguised commitments H clarifcation T R T T R
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VI. Representational independence and the disappearing options Those of Ror y s ri i s who have lai ed li e o a ha here are op io s R R R R R R R R R R pull out certain the features of these things how dinosaurs in fact were R R how dinosaurs were R things features R representationally independent R R T R T R T
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R H P P R once you describe something as a dinosaur sort once you have described it R saying of it R of the skin color saying anything about the thing’s skin color in some way or other as the sort of thing about which one can say it has such-and-such color skin R H features ascriptions T R T R T R R 11 T R T
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R T R described as dinosaurs T T
VII. Rorty and recommendation Par 4 said ha Ror y s a sal ders a di of la a e a es has R R T R this R recommending R R that —that recommended R T R R being just two alternatives recommended R there are just two options R
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R R R R R Tractatus T give T R R R R R T R R R R H R 12
Notes Philosophical Investigations outside P P T P R R R R R T R P R R properly
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T P R R R P R R R H R R R practical R R R R T R Tractatus T R R T R T P T
References R P P T T P R H P H T R H T P P T T
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