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Frege's Puzzle

Author : Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780924922558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Frege's Puzzle written by Nathan U. Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the information content of declarative sentences is a central topic in the philosophy of language. The natural view that a sentence like "John loves Mary" contains information in which two individuals occur as constituents is termed the naive theory, and is one that has been abandoned by most contemporary scholars. This theory was refuted originally by philosopher Gottlob Frege. His argument that the naive theory did not work is termed Frege's puzzle, and his rival account of information content is termed the orthodox theory. In this detailed study, Nathan Salmon defends a version of the naive theory and presents a proposal for its extension that provides a better picture of information content than the orthodox theory gives. He argues that a great deal of what has generally been taken for granted in the philosophy of language over the past few decades is either mistaken or unsupported, and consequently, much current research is focused on the wrong set of questions. Salmon dissolves Frege's puzzle as it is usually formulated and demonstrates how it can be reconstructed and strengthened to yield a more powerful objection to the naive theory. He then defends the naive theory against the new Frege puzzle by presenting an idea that yields both a surprisingly rich and powerful extension of the naive theory and a better picture of information content than that of the original orthodox theory. Nathan Salmon is Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara. A Bradford Book.

Frege's Puzzle

Author : Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher : Bradford Books
ISBN 13 : 9780262690966
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Frege's Puzzle written by Nathan U. Salmon and published by Bradford Books. This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed study, Nathan Salmon defends a version of the naive theory and presents a proposal for its extension that provides a better picture of information content than the orthodox theory gives.

Frege's "On Sense and Reference". Elaborating Gottlob Frege’s Puzzles

Author : Sabrina Fiel Abade
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346610268
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Frege's "On Sense and Reference". Elaborating Gottlob Frege’s Puzzles written by Sabrina Fiel Abade and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: 1,0, University of Luxembourg, language: English, abstract: While talking to someone, both may be speaking of the same thing, without realizing that they are doing so. When I am talking about the Morning Star, and someone else is talking about the Evening Star, are we both talking about the same thing? Or are we talking about two different things, as we are using different names for the thing we are talking about? To start an analysis on this topic, this paper will elaborate Frege’s Puzzle’s, which he introduces at the beginning of "On sense and reference". He talks about two puzzles, one concerning identity statements, and the other, concerning propositional attitude reports. As he himself elaborates those puzzles, he will also try to find the solution to those puzzles. To understand his solution to the Puzzles, I will elaborate his solutions, giving various definitions, which are necessary to have a great understanding of what is being argued for. While his first puzzle is especially based on proper names, his second puzzle, will concern entire declarative sentences and forms of argumentation. After having a clear understanding of what the problem with identity is, and how Frege claims to have solved it, we will see how one could oppose to Frege’s resolution to the puzzle. Analyzing multiple reproaches, would go beyond the scope of this paper. Therefore, we will only focus on a claim stated by Glezako Stravoula, saying that Frege started his argumentation wrong, by supposing that a=a can be known a priori.

Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later

Author : John Biro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401104115
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later written by John Biro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gottlob Frege's Über Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the publication of Frege's essay. The fourteen essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Semantic Relationism

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405196696
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Relationism written by Kit Fine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. A major contribution to the philosophy of language, now available in paperback Written by one of today’s most respected philosophers Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today’s leading philosophers

Thinking and Being

Author : Irad Kimhi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674985281
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Thinking and Being written by Irad Kimhi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought—those that explicate how we in fact think—must be distinguished from logical laws of thought—those that formulate and impose rational requirements on thinking. Logic does not describe how we actually think, but only how we should. Yet by thus sundering the logical from the psychological, Frege was unable to explain certain fundamental logical truths, most notably the psychological version of the law of non-contradiction—that one cannot think a thought and its negation simultaneously. Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being marks a radical break with Frege’s legacy in analytic philosophy, exposing the flaws of his approach and outlining a novel conception of judgment as a two-way capacity. In closing the gap that Frege opened, Kimhi shows that the two principles of non-contradiction—the ontological principle and the psychological principle—are in fact aspects of the very same capacity, differently manifested in thinking and being. As his argument progresses, Kimhi draws on the insights of historical figures such as Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein to develop highly original accounts of topics that are of central importance to logic and philosophy more generally. Self-consciousness, language, and logic are revealed to be but different sides of the same reality. Ultimately, Kimhi’s work elucidates the essential sameness of thinking and being that has exercised Western philosophy since its inception.

Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy of thought and language

Author : Michael Beaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415306058
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy of thought and language written by Michael Beaney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material which is made available to Anglophone scholars for the first time.

Consciousness and Cognition

Author : Michael Thau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195349658
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and Cognition written by Michael Thau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite its naturalness, this conception begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. Exorcising these errors requires that we completely reconceive the nature of both consciousness and cognition as well as the fundamental problems each poses. Thau proceeds by discussing three famous and important philosophical puzzles - Spectrum Inversion, Frege's Puzzle, and Black-and-White Mary - each of which concerns some aspect of either consciousness or cognition. It has gone unnoticed that at a certain important level of generality, each of these puzzles presents the very same problem and, in bringing out this common problem, the errors in our natural conception of consciousness and cognition are also brought out. Thau's book will appeal to the casual reader interested in the proper solution of these puzzles and the nature of consciousness and cognition. The discussion of Frege's puzzle also contains important insights about the nature of linguistic communication and, hence, anyone interested in the fundamental questions in philosophy of language will also want to read the book.

Taking Frege at His Word

Author : Joan Weiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198865473
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Taking Frege at His Word written by Joan Weiner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a new interpretation of the writings of Gottlob Frege. It advances our understanding of the history of analytic philosophy, and shows that Frege's writings have important significance for the way we should approach contemporary problems concerning language, logic, and mathematics.

Analytic Philosophy

Author : Aloysius Martinich
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780631216476
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy written by Aloysius Martinich and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial anthology comprises the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of readings in analytic philosophy of the twentieth century. It provides a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. The volume is divided into seven sections: philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, free will and personal identity, ethics, and methodology. It includes the most familiar texts of the analytic tradition, as well as several others that are less often anthologized. Several articles are logically related to each other. For example, Moore's Four Forms of Skepticism, appears together with selections from Wittgenstein's On Certainty; Langford's discussion of the paradox of analysis and Moore's reply are both included; and Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism is paired with Grice and Strawson's In Defense of a Dogma. The distinctive selections and internal coherence make this anthology an invaluable guide for anyone interested in twentieth-century and analytic philosophy.

The Magic Prism

Author : Howard Wettstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198036425
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Prism written by Howard Wettstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 20th century saw great movement in the philosophy of language, often critical of the fathers of the subject--Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Russell--but sometimes supportive of (or even defensive about) the work of the fathers. Howard Wettstein's sympathies lie with the critics. But he says that they have often misconceived their critical project, treating it in ways that are technically focused and that miss the deeper implications of their revolutionary challenge. Wettstein argues that Wittgenstein--a figure with whom the critics of Frege and Russell are typically unsympathetic--laid the foundation for much of what is really revolutionary in this late 20th century movement. The subject itself should be of great interest, since philosophy of language has functioned as a kind of foundation for much of 20th century philosophy. But in fact it remains a subject for specialists, since the ideas are difficult and the mode of presentation is often fairly technical. In this book, Wettstein brings the non-specialist into the conversation (especially in early chapters); he also reconceives the debate in a way that avoids technical formulation. The Magic Prism is intended for professional philosophers, graduate students, and upper division undergraduates.

Names and Context

Author : Dolf Rami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350180645
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Names and Context written by Dolf Rami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the main challenges and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and semantic features of proper names are at the centre of philosophy of language. How does a single proper name refer to the same thing in different contexts of use? What makes a thing a bearer of a proper name? What is their meaning? Guided by these questions, Rami discusses Saul Kripke's main contributions to the debate and introduces two new ways to capture the rigidity of names, proposing a pluralist version of the causal chain picture. Covering popular contextualist accounts of names, both indexical and variabilist, he presents a use-sensitive alternative based on a semantic comparison between names, pronouns and demonstratives. Extending and applying his approach to a wide variety of uses, including names in fiction, this is a comprehensive explanation of why we should interpret proper names as use-sensitive expressions.

New Essays on the Nature of Propositions

Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317510283
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book New Essays on the Nature of Propositions written by David Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Talking About

Author : Elmar Unnsteinsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865137
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Talking About written by Elmar Unnsteinsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech art theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular reference which avoids well-known puzzles and objections. The theory, called Edenic intentionalism, is grounded in a mechanistic perspective on explanation in cognitive science and a new Gricean account of speaker meaning and speaker reference. Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference develops an account of the mental state of identity confusion and separates questions about the nature of representational acts and representational states. Unnsteinsson proposes a division of labour, but Edenic intentionalism is strictly a theory of intentional, mind-directed representational acts, taking speech acts as its paradigm case. Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference argues that mental mechanisms ought to be postulated to explain human cognitive capacities. Pragmatic competence is the capacity to successfully produce utterances with a communicative intention. By examining the characteristic function and malfunction of the mechanism for referential competence, the study shows that confused reference should be understood as a type of malfunction. This is the core thesis of Edenic intentionalism: that the identity confusion disrupts the normal function of the speech art of reference.

Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information

Author : Heimir Geirsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136180184
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information written by Heimir Geirsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advocates of the causal reference theory have favored the view that the semantic contents of proper names are their referents. However, Frege’s puzzle about the different cognitive value of coreferential names has made this identification seem impossible. Geirsson provides a detailed overview of the debate to date, and then develops a novel account that explains our reluctance, even when we know about the relevant identity, to substitute coreferential names in both simple sentences and belief contexts while nevertheless accepting the view that the semantic content of names is their referents. The account focuses on subjects organizing information in webs; a name can then access and elicit information from a given web. Geirsson proceeds to extend the account of information to non-referring names, but they have long provided a serious challenge to the causal reference theorist.

Modes of Representation

Author : Richard Kimberly Heck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192606069
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Representation written by Richard Kimberly Heck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lois Lane knows that Superman can fly, but she does not know that Clark Kent can fly. How can that be, given that Superman and Clark are one and the same? To answer this question, Frege famously distinguished the reference of a name (the thing it is a name of) from what he called its 'sense' or 'mode of presentation'. The sense was meant to capture our (necessarily limited) perspective on reference and to explain the difference in 'cognitive value' between "Superman can fly" and "Clark can fly". Frege's distinction has been widely discussed in the last century, but much about it remains unclear. In this collection, Richard Kimberly Heck, one of the world's foremost experts on Frege's philosophy, distinguishes three aspects of Frege's famous 'puzzle' and explores the connections between them. Their wide-ranging discussion touches on issues in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, the history of analytic philosophy, and meta-philosophy. Heck argues that, while many of the details of Frege's position cannot be defended, his famous puzzle still has much to teach us both about the foundations of cognition and about the nature of linguistic communication. Modes of Presentation presents eight previously published papers, two of which are significantly expanded. There are also three new chapters, three new postscripts responding to criticisms, and a substantial overview that introduces the issues and traces connections between the chapters.

Logic Identity and Consistency]

Author : Pranab Kumar Sen
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788170237280
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Logic Identity and Consistency] written by Pranab Kumar Sen and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: