{"product_id":"the-primacy-of-metaphysics-9780198835578","title":"The Primacy of Metaphysics","description":"This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics and the theory of meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and\u003cbr\u003econtent. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of \u003cem\u003eThe Primacy of Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e, how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities\u003cbr\u003einvolved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his\u003cbr\u003eapproach generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Peacocke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198835578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Peacocke, \u003cem\u003eJohnsonian Professor of Philosophy \/ Honorary Fellow, Columbia University \/ London University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Peacocke worked for many years in Oxford and London. He was successively a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London, and finally for twelve years Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at\u003cbr\u003eMagdalen College, Oxford. In 2000 he became Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is currently Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932117155955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5db3a98a-8fd7-47f9-8b29-dd7b0fe2be08.jpg?v=1647790467","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-primacy-of-metaphysics-9780198835578","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}