I want to read more about this topic. What texts are available?

>>8520484

The 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Kant is the most historically significant expression of this view, it's probably worth reading some work by Edward Sapir who wrote about this kind of issue but with reference to anthropology.

>>8520580

Can I jump straight into Kant? Although I love reading and I like to think I'm pretty smart, I don't have any serious background in philosophy. Is there required reading I have to do beforehand or can I get through it just by trying harder?

>>8520587
Better to just jump in. It's the best way to increase your comprehension for philosophy in general in my opinion, a set of introductory text just seems to get me bored on the subject and take more time than is necessary to get an understanding.

>>8520598

Awesome, thanks.

>>8520598
Is this bait?

>>8520626
No. I'm not saying he's going to completely understand it right away but if he can read Kant and kind of understand him the best way for him to learn to mostly understand him is to keep reading him.

>>8520484
Quine, Kant, and Wittgenstein are probably the biggest names on these matters. Also look into stuff on holism in semantics and/or science and/or epistemology.

>>8520580
Too bad Kant's writing is an unreadable mess, further entagled by translations, and anyone who claims to understand him is lying.

File: 1474155290023.gif (4MB, 200x200px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 200x200px

>>8520587
>>8520598
>Can I jump straight into Kant?
>Better to just jump in.

At least get the Guyer translation and read the entire Introduction like ten times. If you're going to do that.

>I want to read more about this topic.
Kant is most obvious, for which you'll want a basic understanding of empiricist associatonist epistemology, and Humean scepticism and associationist epistemology anyway.

Try also existential phenomenology, hermeneutics, and hermeneutic phenomenology, especially Heidegger and Ricoeur, for the idea of the always-already in semiotics.

Or Foucault and a Foucauldian reading of Nietzsche, for an historically contingent, perspectivist, genealogical take on Kant's conditions of the possibility of knowledge.

>>8521057
Also maybe linguistic behaviorism.