{"product_id":"constructing-the-world-9780199608577","title":"Constructing the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David J. Chalmers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version of the project can succeed. With the right basic elements and the right derivation relation, we can indeed construct the world. The focal point of Chalmers' project is scrutability: the thesis that ideal reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world. Chalmers first argues for the scrutability thesis and then considers how small the base can be. The result is a framework in \"metaphysical epistemology\" epistemology in service of a global picture of the world. The scrutability framework has ramifications throughout philosophy. Using it, Chalmers defends a broadly Fregean approach to meaning, argues for an internalist approach to the contents of thought, and rebuts W.V. Quine's arguments against the analytic and the a priori. He also uses scrutability to analyze the unity of science, to defend a sort of conceptual metaphysics, and to mount a structuralist response to skepticism. Based on Chalmers's 21 John Locke lectures, Constructing the World opens up debate on central philosophical issues concerning knowledge, language, mind, and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780711039127,"sku":"9780199608577","price":6956.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199608577.webp?v=1778047501","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/constructing-the-world-9780199608577","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}