Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives Points of View as Access /

• Main Author: Colomina-Almiñana, Juan J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 392
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Semantics.; Epistemology.; Philosophy of Science.

This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Two Interpretations of Points of View
• Chapter 2. A Historical Survey of Points of View
• Chapter 3. The Feasibility of Determinables
• Chapter 4. The structure of Points of View
• Chapter 5. Grounding Qualitative Dimensions
• chapter 6. An Approach to the Speaker's point of View
• Chapter 7. Conclusion.