Frege On Thinking And Its Epistemic Significance

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Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance

Author : Pieranna Garavaso
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739178393
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance written by Pieranna Garavaso and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's notion of thinking (das Denken) to provide a new analysis of a largely unexplored area of the philosopher's work. Confronting Frege's deeply seated and widely emphasized anti-psychologism, Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance claims that the objective human science that Frege proposed can only be possible through a nuanced notion of thinking as neither merely psychological nor merely logical. Focusing on what Frege says about thinking in many passages from his works, Garavaso and Vassallo argue that Frege was engaged with issues that are still alive in contemporary debates, such as the definition of knowledge and the necessary role of language in conceptual thinking and in the expression of thoughts. Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance is essential not only for those interested in a new and original reading of Frege’s philosophy, but also for anyone engaged in epistemology, logic, psychology, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

The Sense of Reference

Author : Gilead Bar-Elli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110813033
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Reference written by Gilead Bar-Elli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

Author : Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804725279
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays written by Howard K. Wettstein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of reference, or the relation of a word to the object to which it refers, has been perhaps the dominant concern of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Extremely influential arguments by Gottlob Frege around the turn of the century convinced the large majority of philosophers that the meaning of a word must be distinguished from its referent, the former only providing some kind of direction for reaching the latter. In the last twenty years, this Fregean orthodoxy has been vigorously challenged by those who argue that certain important kinds of words, at least, refer directly without need of an intermediate meaning or sense. The essays in this volume record how a long-term study of Frege has persuaded the author that Frege's pivotal distinction between sense and reference, and his attendant philosophical views about language and thought, are unsatisfactory. Frege's perspective, he argues, imposes a distinctive way of thinking about semantics, specifically about the centrality of cognitive significance puzzles for semantics. Freed from Frege's perspective, we will no longer find it natural to think about semantics in this way.

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Author : Landon D. C. Elkind
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319943642
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Logical Atomism written by Landon D. C. Elkind and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive critical survey of issues of historical interpretation and evaluation in Bertrand Russell's 1918 logical atomism lectures and logical atomism itself. These lectures record the culmination of Russell's thought in response to discussions with Wittgenstein on the nature of judgement and philosophy of logic and with Moore and other philosophical realists about epistemology and ontological atomism, and to Whitehead and Russell’s novel extension of revolutionary nineteenth-century work in mathematics and logic. Russell's logical atomism lectures have had a lasting impact on analytic philosophy and on Russell's contemporaries including Carnap, Ramsey, Stebbing, and Wittgenstein. Comprised of 14 original essays, this book will demonstrate how the direct and indirect influence of these lectures thus runs deep and wide.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism

Author : Pieranna Garavaso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147429779X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism written by Pieranna Garavaso and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the tools and methods of analytic philosophy, analytic feminism is an approach adopted in discussions of sexism, classism and racism. The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism presents the first comprehensive reference resource to the nature, history and significance of this growing tradition and the forms of social discrimination widely covered in feminist writings. Through individual sections on metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory, a team of esteemed philosophers examine the relationship between analytic feminism and the main areas of philosophical reflection. Their engaging and original contributions explore how analytic feminists define their concepts and use logic to support their claims. Each section provides concise overviews of the main debates in feminist literature within that particular area of research, as well as introductions to each of the chapters. Together with a glossary and an annotated bibliography, this companion features an overview of the basic tools used in reading analytic philosophy. The result is an in-depth and authoritative guide to understanding analytic feminist's characteristic methods.

The Cambridge Companion to Frege

Author : Tom Ricketts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982578X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Frege written by Tom Ricketts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.

A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Author : Giorgio Baruchello
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110760010
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences written by Giorgio Baruchello and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune’s slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person’s career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this, and so much else. In particular, humor can accompany cruelty, inform it, sustain it, and exemplify it. Therefore, in this book, we provide a comprehensive, reasoned exploration of the vast literature on the concepts of humor and cruelty, as these have been tackled in Western philosophy, humanities, and social sciences, especially psychology. Also, the apparent cacophony of extant interpretations of these two concepts is explained as the inevitable and even useful result of the polysemy inherent to all common-sense concepts, in line with the understanding of concepts developed by M. Polanyi in the 20th century. Thus, a thorough, nuanced grasp of their complex mutual relationship is established, and many platitudes affecting today's received views, and scholarship, are cast aside.

Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

Author : Howard Wettstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503621893
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays written by Howard Wettstein and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Necessary Beings

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199669570
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Beings written by Bob Hale and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Two-Dimensional Semantics

Author : Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019927195X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Two-Dimensional Semantics written by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number ofdifferent two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, thecontents of thought, and the mind-body problem.Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

New Essays on Frege

Author : Gisela Bengtsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319711865
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Frege written by Gisela Bengtsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects nine essays that investigate the work of Gottlob Frege. The contributors address Frege’s work in relation to literature and fiction (Dichtung), the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften), and science (Wissenschaft). Overall, the essays consider internal connections between different aspects of Frege’s work while acknowledging the importance of its philosophical context. There are also further common strands between the papers, such as the relation between Frege’s and Wittgenstein’s approaches to philosophical investigations, the relation between Frege and Kant, and the place of Frege’s work in the philosophical landscape more generally. The volume is therefore of direct relevance to several current debates in philosophy in general, in addition to Frege and Wittgenstein research in particular. Even though Frege’s great significance for contemporary philosophy is not disputed, the question of how we are to understand the character and aims of his project is debated. The debate has a starting point in Frege’s specific conception of logic. The volume elucidates this conception as well as the relation between natural language and the Begriffsschrift. It will help philosophers, researchers, and students better understand the nuances of this great thinker. By extension, it will also help readers seeking to understand Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical difficulties and his struggle to find an apt form of presentation for his philosophical investigations.

Realizing Reason

Author : Danielle Macbeth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198704755
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Realizing Reason written by Danielle Macbeth and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danielle Macbeth offers a new account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into objective truth, and argues that understanding the nature of mathematical practice provides us with the resources to develop a radically new conception of ourselves and our capacity for knowledge of objective truth.

The Rules of Thought

Author : Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198748182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Rules of Thought written by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rules of Thought develops a rationalist theory of mental content while defending a traditional epistemology of philosophy. Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and Benjamin W. Jarvis contend that a capacity for pure rational thought is fundamental to mental content itself and underwrites ourquotidian reasoning and extraordinary philosophical engagement alike. Part I of the book develops a Fregean theory of mental content, according to which rational relations between propositions play a central role in individuating contents; the theory is designed to be sensitive not only to Frege'spuzzle and other data that have motivated rationalist conceptions of content, but also to considerations in the philosophy of mind and language that have motivated neo-Russellian views. Part II articulates a theory of the a priori, and shows that, given the framework of Part I, it is very plausiblethat much philosophical work of interest is genuinely a priori. Notably, it is no part of the picture developed that intuitions have an important role to play, either in mental content, or in the epistemology of the a priori; Part III defends this departure from rationalist orthodoxy.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756780
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language written by Michael Devitt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field. Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference

Logic and How it Gets That Way

Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317546547
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Logic and How it Gets That Way written by Dale Jacquette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.

Metaphysicians of Meaning

Author : Gideon Makin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134547641
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysicians of Meaning written by Gideon Makin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on meaning.

Thinking about Mathematics

Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0192893068
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Mathematics written by Stewart Shapiro and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about Mathematics covers the range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics. The text describes the questions about mathematics that motivated philosophers throughout history and covers historical figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill. It also presents the major positions and arguments concerning mathematics throughout the twentieth century, bringing the reader up to the present positions and battle lines.