Confusion : A Study in the Theory of Knowledge / Joseph L. Camp Jr.
Camp Jr., Joseph L., author.
2009
BD171 ǂb C18 2002eb
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Title Confusion : A Study in the Theory of Knowledge / Joseph L. Camp Jr.
Author Camp Jr., Joseph L., author.
ISBN 9780674029170
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029170
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (256 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674029170 doi
Call Number BD171 ǂb C18 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 165
Summary Everyone has mistaken one thing for another, such as a stranger for an acquaintance. A person who has mistaken two things, Joseph Camp argues, even on a massive scale, is still capable of logical thought. In order to make that idea precise, one needs a logic of confused thought that is blind to the distinction between the objects that have been confused. Confused thought and language cannot be characterized as true or false even though reasoning conducted in such language can be classified as valid or invalid. To the extent that philosophers have addressed this issue at all, they take it for granted that confusion is a kind of ambiguity. Camp rejects this notion; his fundamental claim is that confusion is not a mental state. To attribute confusion to someone is to take up a paternalistic stance in evaluating his reasoning. Camp proposes a novel characterization of confusion, and then demonstrates its fruitfulness with several applications in the history of philosophy and the history of science.
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Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
I Material Falsity
1. Thinking One Thing Is Another
2. A Little History
II What Confusion Is
3. Fred and the Ant Colony
4. The Semantic Use of Psychological Language
III A Little Logic
5. Ambiguity
6. Humoring
IV Truth-Valuing
7. Calibration
8. Failure to Refer
9. How You Convince People-Including Yourself- of the Theory of Descriptions
10. Trying to Predicate Existence
V A Logic for Confusion
11. Explicating
12. Good Advice
13. How Fred Should Think
VI Curing Confusion
14. Semantic Self-Awareness
15. Two Charleys
16. Young Newton
VII Flexible Sameness
17. Self-Induced Confusion
18. The Theory of Ideas
19. Making Category Mistakes and Loving It
Notes
Index

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