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Examining key issues in the philosophy of logic, mind and language, this book proposes grounds for a different era of cooperation and mutual interrogative exchange between the two schools of thought. It explores both traditions alongside one another in order to point up certain contrasts or communities of interest.

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'...Norris engages in a series of closely argues, though not overly technical, reflections on the debate between various aspects of epistemological realism and anti-realism.' Mark Vernon, TLS--Sanford Lakoff Tls Norris continues the complex bridge-building project of his four previous books ( Hillary Putnam, CH, Mar'03, 40-3942; Against Relativism , CH, Apr'98, 35-4452; Reclaiming Truth , CH, May'97, 34-5019; and Truth and the Ethnic of Criticism , May'95, 32-5013) to defend a normatively adequate realist account of knowledge, rational explanation, and reference. Chapter 1 reviews debates over psychologism from Frege to Quine and Dummett, then offers an alternative, normatively adequate naturalized epistemology inspired by Philip Kitcher. Chapter 2 continues a similar line of realist argument in light of debates by Quine, Davidson, and Mcdowell over the three dogmas of empiricism. Chapters 3 and 4 develop Norris's position with particular reference to scientific knowledge and natural-language interpretation. Chapter 5 turns to Continental thinkers from Sartre to Derrida for overlooked insights on how to understand the question of doxastic responsibility. Finally, in chapter 6 Norris brings his realist arguments to bear against Kripke's reading of Wittgenstein on following a rule and its resultant communitarian account of knowledge. This chapter includes discussions of replies to Kripke by Wright Tennant, and McDowell. Though not a book for beginners, this study, with its impressive scope, will help greatly advanced students and scholars interested in the variety of so-called analytic and Continental traditions . --Sanford Lakoff

<p> Norris continues the complex bridge-building project of his four previous books ( Hillary Putnam, CH, Mar'03, 40-3942; Against Relativism, CH, Apr'98, 35-4452; Reclaiming Truth, CH, May'97, 34-5019; and Truth and the Ethnic of Criticism, May'95, 32-5013) to defend a normatively adequate realist account of knowledge, rational explanation, and reference. Chapter 1 reviews debates over psychologism from Frege to Quine and Dummett, then offers an alternative, normatively adequate naturalized epistemology inspired by Philip Kitcher. Chapter 2 continues a similar line of realist argument in light of debates by Quine, Davidson, and Mcdowell over the three dogmas of empiricism. Chapters 3 and 4 develop Norris's position with particular reference to scientific knowledge and natural-language interpretation. Chapter 5 turns to Continental thinkers from Sartre to Derrida for overlooked insights on how to understand the question of doxastic responsibility. Finally, in chapter 6 Norr

'...Norris engages in a series of closely argues, though not overly technical, reflections on the debate between various aspects of epistemological realism and anti-realism.' Mark Vernon, TLS--, Tls

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Christopher Norris is a leading contemporary theorist. He has taught at the University of California Berkeley, CUNY, and Dartmouth College. He is currently Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University.

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