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Language, Logic and Epistemology
C Norris
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Description for Language, Logic and Epistemology
Hardback. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; CFA; DSA; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date and with no further role than to prop up existing divisions of intellectual labour. He makes his case through some exceptionally acute revisionist readings of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Paul de Man, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. In each instance Norris ... Read more
Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date and with no further role than to prop up existing divisions of intellectual labour. He makes his case through some exceptionally acute revisionist readings of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Paul de Man, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. In each instance Norris ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403921659
SKU
V9781403921659
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99-15
About C Norris
CHRISTOPHER NORRIS is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University and has also held visiting posts in California (Berkeley), USA, The City University of New York Graduate Centre, USA and the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is the author of more than twenty books to date on various aspects of philosophy and critical theory.
Reviews for Language, Logic and Epistemology
'Norris... presents an impressive depth, resuscitating Derrida as a logician, tackling Wittgenstein's anti-realist leanings and investigating the attempts of analytic philosophy to find a middle way between realism and its opponents.' - The Times Literary Supplement