A Study of Concepts

by Christopher Peacocke

Book Overview

This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.

Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262660970
• ISBN13: 9780262660976
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher