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Title: Being Known by Christopher Peacocke ISBN: 0-19-823860-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Often Unclear But Worth Reading
Comment: How about one clear sentence? Perhaps two??
There must have been a British school of philosophical prose--a cadre of gin-drinkers--(perhaps we could call it the Dummett School of Philosophical Prose) that cranked out folks who could write difficult sentences. Peacocke (and I daresay Crispin Wright, and McDowell in some moods) earned top honors. Must have been post-J.L. Austin, maybe post-Ryle.
Nevertheless, if you have the patience to find it, Peacocke has an interesting thesis here. He engages what he calls the 'Integration Challenge,' (IC) which is basically the task of accounting for both the metaphysical and epistemic grounds of our truth statements. Peacocke says that the notion is inspired from Benaceraff's paper on mathematical truth: "the concept of mathematical truth, as explicated, must fit into an over-all account of knowledge in a way that makes it intelligible how we have the mathematical knowledge that we have." So Peacocke wants to extend the IC for math truth to other philosophical areas.
Part One describes exactly what the IC is. Part Two is on Truth--whereby Peacocke advances what he calls the 'linking thesis' of epist. and metaphyiscs. Part Three is Dummett-like/Strawson-like: on the past, property identity, truth and realism. Part Four (which is most interesting to me) is on necessity (modal and wittgenstein challenges). Part Five is on self-knowledge. Part Six continues the discussion in part five, and goes into Delta Theories and Reductionism. Part Seven: Freedom. Freedom! Part Eight is concluding remarks, his nail in the coffin for his views.
This is some controversial stuff here. Not easy going. I also recommend some of the classical literature on truth and math necessity: Dummett, Stroud, Putnam, Horwich, Lewis's modal realism, McDowell, Davidson, Wright, Burge.
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Title: Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field ISBN: 0199242895 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Possible Worlds (The Problems of Philosophy) by John Divers ISBN: 0415155568 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Reflections and Replies : Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge by Martin Hahn, Bjørn Ramberg ISBN: 0262582228 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time by E. J. Lowe ISBN: 0199244995 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Essays on Nonconceptual Content by York H. Gunther ISBN: 0262571617 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 24 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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