{"product_id":"grounding-concepts","title":"Grounding Concepts","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrounding Concepts  tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism.Drawing on a wide range of philosophical influences, but avoiding unnecessary technicality, a view is developed whereby arithmetic can be known through the examination of empirically grounded concepts. \n\u003cbr\u003eThese are concepts which, owing to their relationship to sensory input, are non-accidentally accurate representations of the mind-independent world.  Examination of such concepts is an armchair activity, but\n\u003cbr\u003eenables us to recover information which has been encoded in the way our concepts represent.  Emphasis on the key role of the senses in securing this coding relationship means that the view respects empiricism, but without undermining the mind-independence of arithmetic or the fact that it is knowable by means of a special armchair method called conceptual examination.  A wealth of related issues are covered during the course of the book, including definitions of realism,\n\u003cbr\u003econditions on knowledge, the problems with extant empiricist approaches to the a priori, mathematical explanation, mathematical indispensability, pragmatism, conventionalism, empiricist criteria for\n\u003cbr\u003emeaningfulness, epistemic externalism and foundationalism.  The discussion encompasses themes from the work of Locke, Kant, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Quine, McDowell, Field, Peacocke, Boghossian, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934928896238,"sku":"9780199231577","price":163.21,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199231577.jpg?v=1706223193","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/grounding-concepts","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}