Content and Justification

Philosophical Papers

• Author(s): Paul A. Boghossian,
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Pages: 370
• ISBN_10: 0191558907
  ISBN_13: 9780191558900
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / Mind & Body , Philosophy / Language ,

Description:... Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. Part one comprises essays on the nature of rule-following and its relation to the problem of mental content; on the intelligibility of eliminativist views of the mental; on the prospects for a naturalistic reduction of mental content; and on the currently influential view that meaning is a normative notion. Part two includes three widely discussed papers on the phenomenon of self-knowledge and its compatibility with externalist conceptions of mental content. Part three concerns the classical but ill-understood phenomenon of knowledge that is based upon knowledge of meaning or conceptual competence. Finally, part four turns its attention from general issues about mental content to an account of a specific class of mental contents. It contains two widely discussed papers on the nature of colour concepts, and colour properties.