Gebundenes Buch

Linguistic Luck

Safeguards and Threats to Linguistic Communication

Herausgeber: Fairweather, Abrol; Montemayor, Carlos

Beschreibung

There has been much philosophical interest in the role of luck in ethics and epistemology; now this volume brings the topic to the fore in philosophy of language. Eleven new essays explore the diversity, scope, and mode of operation of luck-reducing mechanisms in language, without which linguistic communication would be impossible.

Autor

Abrol Fairweather is Emeritus Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. He has written and edited books and essays in the field of virtue epistemology, including the first collection of essays in the field, Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility (Fairweather, A & Zagzebski, L. eds., 2001), and has emphasized naturalized approaches to this highly normative subject, including Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (2017). Carlos Montemayor is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Montemayor is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (2013), and co-author (with Abrol Fairweather) of Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (2017), among other books including, most recently, his open access book The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence (2023).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845450
• ISBN-10: 0192845454
• Artikelnr.: 67864937