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This volume brings together fourteen major essays by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price links themes from Quine, Carnap, Wittgenstein and Rorty, to craft a powerful critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. He offers a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold.

AbstractThis paper discusses the relation between Crispin Wright's alethic pluralism and my global expressivism. I argue that on many topics Wright's own view counts as expressivism in my sense, but that truth itself is a striking exception. Unlike me, Wright never seems to countenance an expressivist account of truth, though the materials needed are available to him in his approaches to other topics.

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Can an agent deliberating about an action A hold a meaningful credence that she will do A? 'No', say some authors, for 'deliberation crowds out prediction' (DCOP). Others disagree, but we argue here that such disagreements are often terminological. We explain why DCOP holds in a Ramseyian operationalist model of credence, but show that it is trivial to extend this model so that DCOP fails. We then discuss a model due to Joyce, and show that Joyce's rejection of DCOP rests on terminological choices about terms such as 'intention', 'prediction', and 'belief'. Once these choices are in view, they reveal underlying agreement between Joyce and the DCOP-favouring tradition that descends from Ramsey. Joyce's Evidential Autonomy Thesis is effectively DCOP, in different terminological clothing. Both principles rest on the so-called 'transparency' of first-person present-tensed reflection on one's own mental states.

"Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his Rene; Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics"--

1. Introduction / Cheryl Misak -- 2. Ramsey's 1929 pragmatism / Cheryl Misak -- 3. The 'middle' Wittgenstein (and the 'later' Ramsey) on the pragmatist conception of truth / Anna Boncompagni -- 4. Smile when you're winning: how to become a Cambridge pragmatist / Hallvard Lillehammer -- 5. Pragmatism: all or some or all and some? / Simon Blackburn -- 6. The spirit of pragmatism in the quads of Oxford / David Bakhurst -- 7. Tempered pragmatism / Ian Rumfitt -- 8. Pragmatism and Anscombe on the first person / Jane Heal -- 9. Wittgenstein's rain in the 'philosophical desert': pragmatist ideas in post-war Oxford / Hanjo Glock -- 10. Epilogue: Ramsey's ubiquitous pragmatism / Huw Price

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: The Nature of Naturalism -- 1 The Charm of Naturalism -- 2 The Miracle of Monism -- 3 The Content and Appeal of "Naturalism" -- 4 Naturalism Without Representationalism -- II MIND -- 5 Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind -- 6 Naturalism and Skepticism -- 7 Intentionality and Norms -- 8 Could There Be a Science of Rationality? -- III AGENCY -- 9 Agency and Alienation -- 10 Is Freedom Really a Mystery? -- 11 Subjectivity and the Agential Perspective -- IV ETHICAL AND AESTHETIC NORMATIVITY -- 12 A Nonnaturalist Account of Personal Identity -- 13 Against Naturalism in Ethics -- 14 Postscript (2002) to "The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index