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A Defense of Goodman’s Worldmaking - Focusing on the Goodman-Scheffler Debate -

Yu-Kyung Hwang 1

1관동대학교

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Nelson Goodman contends that we make worlds by making worldversions. Though Israel Scheffler approves of Goodman's epistemological pluralism, he cannot accept Goodman’s thesis of worldmaking. He disagrees with Goodman in that he cannot accept the idea that we make the things to which our versions refer. For Goodman, we make a star by putting its parts together and marking off its boundaries. Scheffler argues that just because we make words, it does not follow that we make a star our words describe; it exists independent of us. I try to make plausible the idea of worldmaking. Following Goodman’s rejection of the distiction between natural and artificial kinds and the convention/fact dualism, I think it may be crucial in arguing for the contention that there is no independent world with fixed properties. I believe that our choice of convention or version creates or shapes content or the things of a world. For Goodman, art also contributes to the making of worlds. I discuss it in case of painting. I examine Goodman’s view of pictorial reference to show how paintings can have cognitive content. Here, it is remarkable that exemplification is a mode of reference whereby a painting refers to its own features. I also discuss that the discrimination of style is an integral aspect to get the insight paintings present.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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