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ISBN-10 :  0192572512 

ISBN-13 : 9780192572516

Author : Christopher Peacocke 

This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning. What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior to the nature of thought and meaning, or not? Christopher Peacocke argues that the nature of the world – its metaphysics – is always involved in thought and meaning. Meaning is never prior to the nature of the world. Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.

The Primacy of Metaphysics 1st Table of contents:

1. Metaphysics and the Theory of Content
1. The Primary Thesis
2. Against Meaning-First Views
3. The Boundedness of the Conceptual
4. No-Priority Cases
5. An Argument from Rationality?
6. Discovery, Explanation, and a Theory of Conditions
7. That and How
8. Ramifications
2. Magnitudes
1. Seven Principles of the Metaphysics of Magnitudes
2. Magnitudes as Perceived
3. Analogue Computation and Representation
4. Analogue Content, Digital Content
5. A Response to Kuhn on Perception
3. Time and Temporal Content
1. Temporal Perception: Some Challenges
2. The Illusions of Subjectivism
3. Phenomenal Externalism
4. Unavailability of Constancy Accounts in the Temporal Case
5. Representational Preservation
6. Present-Tense Content: Varieties, Nature, and Deflationary Significance
4. The Self
1. The Metaphysics of Subjects and the Nature of the First Person
2. Some Metaphysical Principles and Their Explanation
3. Contrasting Subjects and Personites
4. What Makes the First Person Refer to a Subject?
5. Consequences of the Agency-Involving Account
5. Numbers
1. Tasks
2. Applicational Individuationism for the Natural Numbers
3. Relation to Neo-Fregean and Postulationist Views
4. From Individuation to Representation
5. Applicational Individuationism for the Real Numbers: A Sketch
6. Carnap: Differences and Affinities
6. Ontology and Intelligibility
1. The Task
2. Four Examples
3. Moving Towards a Criterion: The Newtonian Case
4. A General Diagnosis: Excess Dimensions
5. Wider Applications of the Diagnosis
6. Understanding, Knowledge, and the Explanation of Limits
7. Conclusion: Avenues for Further Development

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