Philosophy after Objectivity : Making Sense in Perspective.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Objectivity and Relativity in Philosophy -- 1. Ontology, Evidence, and Philosophical Questions -- 1.1 What the Greeks Wrought -- 1.2 Realism versus Conceptualism -- 1.3 Essences and Conceptual Taking -- 1.4 Realism, Criteria, and Modes of Existence -- 1.5 Realism and How Things Are -- 1.6 Aristotelian Essence-Realism -- 1.7 An Epistemological Problem -- A. A General Agnostic Argument -- B. Refining the Agnostic Argument -- 1.8 Philosophy after Agnosticism -- 2. Justification, Meta-Epistemology, and Meaning -- 2.1 Three Epistemological Projects -- 2.2 An Epistemological Dilemma: Naivete or Circularity? -- 2.3 Semantic Foundationalism -- A. Notions and Conceptual Commitments -- B. Arguing for Justification -- C. Evaluating and Explaining Justification -- 2.4 Objections and Metaphilosophical Lessons -- A. Preanalytic Data, Ordinary Language, and Essences -- B. Notions and Philosophical Problems -- C. Conceptual Relativism Introduced -- 2.5 Two Epistemological Extremes -- 2.6 A General Epistemological Moral -- 3. Meaning, Interpretation, and Analyticity -- 3.1 Ways of Meaning -- 3.2 Rules, Regularities, and Social Agreements -- A. Rule-Governed Use -- B. Regularities and Social Agreements, -- 3.3 Semantic Interpretationism -- A. Purposive Linguistic Use -- B. Meaning and Interpretation -- C. Interpretively Purposive Use -- 3.4 Correctness in Use -- 3.5 Whither Analyticity? -- 3.6 Standards for Analyticity: Carnap versus Quine -- 3.7 Analyticity Regained -- 3.8 Analyticity in Epistemology -- 4. Reasons, Truth, and Relativism -- 4.1 Concepts of Truth -- 4.2 Concepts of Reasons -- 4.3 The Fate of Relativism -- 4.4 Practical Ideals and Practical Relevance -- 4.5 Purposive Reasons and a Multiplicity Problem -- A. Evaluative Purposes and Relativism -- B. Internalism -- 4.6 Conceptual Instrumentalism.

5. Physicalism, Action, and Explanation -- 5.1 Is Physicalism Coherent? -- A. An Argument Against Physicalism -- B. Individual and Socially Shared Truth-Conditions -- C. Physicalism and Reduction -- 5.2 Nonreductive Physicalism and Supervenience -- A. Global Supervenience -- B. A Problem for Universal Global Supervenience -- 5.3 Physicalism and Action Theory -- A. Two Modes of Explanation -- B. Physicalism and Explanatory Strategies -- C. Return to Action -- 5.4 Whither Philosophy? -- Appendix: Charity, Interpretation, and Truth -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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