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Philosophical Representation: Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism

Philosophical Representation: Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism

Simchen, Ori

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Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1032307439
ISBN13: 9781032307435
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 9 2024
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude.

Philosophy is awash with theoretical representations, which raises the question of how we should regard them. This book argues that representations in philosophy should not be regarded under a realist attitude by default as individually disclosing the nature of what they represent. Ori Simchen introduces the reader to the general theme of representations in philosophy and our attitudes towards them via case studies: numbers, modality, and belief. He offers a framework for deciding when a realist attitude towards a theoretical representation is warranted and concludes that the representations deployed in the case studies fail the proposed test. The next part of the book illustrates the attractiveness of attitudinal instrumentalism towards representations in semantics, in the philosophy of mind, and within the problematics of rule-following.

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