Content and Justification: Philosophical Papers

by Paul Boghossian

Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.

Part one comprises essays on the nature of rule-following and its relation to the problem of mental content; on the intelligibility of eliminativist views of the mental; on the prospects for a naturalistic reduction of mental content; and on the currently influential view that meaning is a normative notion.

Part two includes three widely discussed papers on the phenomenon of self-knowledge and its compatibility with externalist conceptions of mental content.

Part three concerns the classical, but ill-understood, phenomenon of knowledge that is based upon knowledge of meaning or conceptual competence.

Finally, part four turns its attention from general issues about mental content to an account of a specific class of mental contents. It contains two widely discussed papers on the nature of color concepts and color properties.

Genres: Philosophy

372 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2008

About the author

Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He was the chair of the department from 1994 to 2004 and, as of 2022, is the current chair as well.

He is also director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

Dr. Boghossian received his PhD from Princeton University in 1987. His research interests include epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Reviews

[Caleb · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a number of interesting papers here dealing with analytic / synthetic distinction, the normative basis of logic, perceptions of colors, Wittgenstein on following a rule, etc.

[كمال العنزي · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.