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Representation of Language

Author : Georges Rey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192597744
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Representation of Language written by Georges Rey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional Rationalism; a supposed conflict between being innate and learned; an unclear ontology and the need of a "representational pretense" with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism about the role of intentionality not only in his own theories, but in any serious science at all. This last is a fundamentally important issue for linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that an examination of a theory as rich and promising as a Chomskyan linguistics should help illuminate. The book ends with a discussion of some further issues that Chomsky misleadingly associates with his theory: an anti-realism about ordinary thought and talk, and a dismissal of the mind/body problem(s), towards the solution of some of which his theory in fact makes an important contribution.

Wittgenstein and Phenomenology

Author : Oskari Kuusela
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317234596
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Phenomenology written by Oskari Kuusela and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, and to clarify more broadly the relations between analytic and phenomenological philosophy. However, rather than treating the interpretation of either phenomenological philosophy or Wittgenstein as an already settled issue, several chapters in the volume examine and question received views regarding them, and develop alternatives to such views. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology will be of interest to scholars working in philosophical methodology and metaphilosophy, the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.

Philosophical Problems

Author : Peter Alward
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554812852
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Problems written by Peter Alward and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Alward’s rigorous introductory text functions as a roadmap for students, laying out the key issues, positions, and arguments of academic philosophy. The book covers central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. An introductory chapter presents the foundations of philosophical discourse and offers a primer on the basics of logic. Those argumentative tools are then employed to address classic philosophical issues such as the relationship between body and mind, skepticism, the possibility of free will, and the existence of God. Later chapters engage issues of morality, justice, and liberty, as well as moral questions concerning abortion and the practice of punishment. Throughout, Alward aims for clarity, providing summaries, diagrams, and reflective questions to assist the student reader.

Marx and Wittgenstein

Author : Gavin Kitching
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134538545
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Marx and Wittgenstein written by Gavin Kitching and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.

Language and Philosophical Problems

Author : Sören Stenlund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134952244
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Language and Philosophical Problems written by Sören Stenlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected with our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptions about language. Philosophical claims made by theorists of meaning are scrutinized and shown to be connected with common views about the nature of certain mathematical notions and methods. Drawing in particular on Wittgenstein's ideas, Sren Stenlund demonstrates a strategy for tracing out and resolving conceptual and philosophical problems. By a critical examination of examples from different areas of philosophy, he shows that many problems arise through the transgression of the limits of the use of technical concepts and formal methods. Many prima facie different kinds of problems are shown to have common roots, and should thus be dealt and resolved together. Such an approach is usually prevented by the influence of traditional philosophical terminology and classification. The results of this investigation make it clear that the received ways of subdividing the subject matter of philosophy often conceal the roots of the problem.

The Problems of Philosophy

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192854232
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Problems of Philosophy written by Bertrand Russell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

101 Philosophy Problems

Author : Martin Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415261289
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book 101 Philosophy Problems written by Martin Cohen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and original introduction to philosophy, written in a clear and entertaining style. The first part of the book presents philosophical problems, the second part contains solutions and further discussions.

An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language

Author : Ufuk Özen Baykent
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898201
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language by : Ufuk Özen Baykent

Download or read book An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language written by Ufuk Özen Baykent and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.

Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy

Author : Paul Horwich
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 019966112X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy written by Paul Horwich and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Horwich presents a bold new interpretation of Wittgenstein's later work. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy - and not his identification of the meaning of a word with its use - that underpins his discussions of specific issues concerning language, the mind, mathematics, knowledge, art, and religion.

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Author : Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351202650
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language written by Hanne Appelqvist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.

Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

Author : Francis Jeffrey Pelletier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027709318
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems by : Francis Jeffrey Pelletier

Download or read book Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems written by Francis Jeffrey Pelletier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1979-03-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many C's there are in that space.

Language Lost and Found

Author : Niklas Forsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623569737
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Language Lost and Found written by Niklas Forsberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language. But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature relate to each other on a general level and in Murdoch's authorship in particular.

Philosophy of Language

Author : Zoltán Gendler Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107096642
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Language written by Zoltán Gendler Szabó and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first philosophy of language textbook on the market to cater to both linguists and philosophers.

John Searle's Philosophy of Language

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521685344
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis John Searle's Philosophy of Language by : Savas L. Tsohatzidis

Download or read book John Searle's Philosophy of Language written by Savas L. Tsohatzidis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of 'what is said' in relation to the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary philosophers, and prefaced by an illuminating essay by Searle, the volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work in philosophy of language, and to suggest innovative approaches to fundamental questions in that area.

The Language of Thought

Author : Susan Schneider
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262015579
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Thought written by Susan Schneider and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface p. ix 1 Introduction p. 1 2 The Central System as a Computational Engine p. 27 3 Jerry Fodor's Globality Challenge to the Computational Theory of Mind Kirk Ludwig p. 65 4 What LOT's Mental States Cannot Be: Ruling out Alternative Conceptions p. 91 5 Mental Symbols p. 111 6 Idiosyncratic Minds Think Alike: Modes of Presentation Reconsidered p. 135 7 Concepts: A Pragmatist Theory p. 159 8 Solving the Frege Cases p. 183 9 Conclusion p. 229 References p. 233 Index p. 249.

Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds

Author : John Earman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970341
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds written by John Earman and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inaugural volume of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf GrŸnbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of scientific methodology, and the foundations of psychoanalysis.

Lying, Misleading, and What is Said

Author : Jennifer Mather Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603685
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Lying, Misleading, and What is Said written by Jennifer Mather Saul and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Saul presents a close analysis of the distinction between lying to others and misleading them, which sheds light on key debates in philosophy of language and tackles the widespread moral preference for misleading over lying. She establishes a new view on the moral significance of the distinction, and explores a range of historical cases.