When Words Are Called For : A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy / Avner Baz.
Baz, Avner, author.
2012
B828.36 .B39 2012
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When Words Are Called For : A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy / Avner Baz.
Author
Baz, Avner, author.
ISBN
9780674064775
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064775
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674064775 doi
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B828.36 .B39 2012
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CC 4800
Dewey Decimal Classification
149/.94
Summary
A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream analytic philosophy, to have been seriously discredited, and consequently its perspective is ignored. Avner Baz begs to differ. In When Words Are Called For, he shows how the prevailing arguments against OLP collapse under close scrutiny. All of them, he claims, presuppose one version or another of the very conception of word-meaning that OLP calls into question and takes to be responsible for many traditional philosophical difficulties. Worse, analytic philosophy itself has suffered as a result of its failure to take OLP's perspective seriously. Baz blames a neglect of OLP's insights for seemingly irresolvable disputes over the methodological relevance of "intuitions" in philosophy and for misunderstandings between contextualists and anti-contextualists (or "invariantists") in epistemology. Baz goes on to explore the deep affinities between Kant's work and OLP and suggests ways that OLP could be applied to other philosophically troublesome concepts. When Words Are Called For defends OLP not as a doctrine but as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to work currently carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy. Accordingly, Baz does not merely argue for OLP but, all the more convincingly, practices it in this eye-opening book.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Basic Conflict - An Initial Characterization
Chapter 2. The Main Arguments against Ordinary Language Philosophy
Chapter 3. Must Philosophers Rely on Intuitions?
Chapter 4. Contextualism and the Burden of Knowledge
Chapter 5. Contextualism, Anti-Contextualism, and Knowing as Being in a Position to Give Assurance
Conclusion: Skepticism and the Dialectic of (Semantically Pure) 'Knowledge'
Epilogue: Ordinary Language Philosophy, Kant, and the Roots of Antinomial Thinking
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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