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Language and Reason

Author : Maeve Cooke
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531450
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Language and Reason written by Maeve Cooke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Juergen Habermas's "Theory of Communicative Action" and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. This text provides a general introduction to Habermas's programme of formal pragmatics - his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, operate in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language should discover connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns. This work introduces the theory of communicative action as the background against which the programme of formal pragmatics must be understood. It then outlines the idea of communicative rationality as a postmetaphysical yet nondefeatist conception of reason. Two central chapters detail the connections Habermas asserts between language and validity, with particular attention to his theory of validity claims and his pragmatic theory of meaning. A final chapter looks at Habermas's account of the pathologies of modern society and at communicative rationality as a yardstick for measuring these pathologies. -- from http://www.amazon.ca (August 22, 2011)

Language and Reason

Author : Bruce B. Wavell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110864223
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Language and Reason written by Bruce B. Wavell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Language and Reason".

Beyond Pure Reason

Author : B. Gasparov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231157800
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Pure Reason written by B. Gasparov and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting an analysis of Saussure's intellectual heritage, this book links Sassurean notions of cognition, language, and history to early Romantic theories of cognition and the transmission of cultural memory. In particular, several fundamental categories of Saussure's philosophy of language, such as the differential nature of language, the mutability and immutability of semiotic values, and the duality of the signifier and the signified, are rooted in early Romantic theories of 'progressive' cognition and child cognitive development.

The Language of Reason

Author : Thomas Joseph Richards
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 : 9780080218458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Reason written by Thomas Joseph Richards and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetoric, Language, and Reason

Author : Michel Meyer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039152
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Language, and Reason written by Michel Meyer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary or postmodern thought is based on the lack of foundation. The impossibility of having a principle for philosophy has become a position of principle. As a result, rhetoric has taken over. Content has given way to the priority of form. Michel Meyer's book aims at showing that philosophy as foundational is possible and necessary, and that rhetoric can flourish alongside, but the conception of reason must be changed. Questioning rather than answering must be considered as the guiding principle. What the author calls "problematology" is not only the study of questioning but also the analysis of the reasons why it has been repressed throughout the history of philosophy. Since Socrates, philosophers and scientists have reasoned by asking questions and by trying to solve them. Questioning has been the unthematized foundation of philosophy and thought at large. Philosophers, however, have preferred another norm, granting privilege to the answers and thereby repressing the questions into the realm of the preliminary and unessential. They have not considered their discursive practice as being based upon some question-answer (or problem-solution) complex, but exclusively on the results they call propositions. Meyer argues that propositions ensue from corresponding questions, and not the other way around. Anthropology, ontology, reasoning, and language thus receive a new interpretation in the problematological conception of philosophy, a conception in which questions and problems are thematized afresh. The theory of language in everyday use, in argumentation, or in literary analysis receives a full and decisive treatment here, making Meyer's question-view one of the leading theories in contemporary thought, alongside his rhetoric for which he is already well known.

Language and Reason

Author : Maeve Cooke
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262032179
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Language and Reason written by Maeve Cooke and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Juergen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. This text provides a general introduction to Habermas's programme of formal pragmatics - his reconstruction of the universal principles of possible understanding that, he argues, operate in everyday communicative practices. Philosophers of language should discover connections between Habermas's account of language and validity (especially his theory of meaning) and their own concerns.

Rediscovering Masculinity

Author : Victor J. Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134968833
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Masculinity written by Victor J. Seidler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men have responded to feminism with feelings of anxiety, guilt and unease. It has taken time for men to consider ways of changing themselves rather than hiding behind feminist rhetoric. Since the mid '70s a structuralist interpretation of feminism has led to new perceptions of power, domination, oppression and sexuality. The author argues that historically masculinity has been identified with reason and femininity with emotion, so men have been trained to speak for others before learning to speak for themselves. Victor Seidler uses some prevalent positions in social theory to expose the main contradictions in received ideas of power, language and sexuality. Topics discussed include: reason, sexuality, change, control, identity, language, strength and intimacy.

Translating the West

Author : Douglas R. Howland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824624
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Translating the West written by Douglas R. Howland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and absorbing analysis of the transformation of political thought in nineteenth-century Japan, Douglas Howland examines the transmission to Japan of key concepts--liberty, rights, sovereignty, and society--from Western Europe and the United States. Because Western political concepts did not translate well into their language, Japanese had to invent terminology to engage Western political thought. This work of westernization served to structure historical agency as Japanese leaders undertook the creation of a modern state. Where scholars have previously treated the introduction of Western political thought to Japan as a simple migration of ideas from one culture to another, Howland undertakes an unprecedented integration of the history of political concepts and the semiotics of translation techniques. He demonstrates that Japanese efforts to translate the West must be understood as problems both of language and action--as the creation and circulation of new concepts and the usage of these new concepts in debates about the programs and policies to be implemented in a westernizing Japan. Translating the West will interest scholars of East Asian studies and translation studies and historians of political thought, liberalism, and modernity.

Language, Truth and Logic

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113094
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Language, Truth and Logic written by Alfred Jules Ayer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.

Language vs. Reality

Author : N.J. Enfield
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368773
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Language vs. Reality written by N.J. Enfield and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. Enfield offers a lively exploration of the science underlying the bugs and features of language. He examines the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of language research, argues that understanding how language works is crucial to tackling our most pressing challenges, including human cognitive bias, media spin, the “post-truth” problem, persuasion, the role of words in our thinking, and much more.

Rhetoric, Language, and Reason

Author : Michel Meyer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027103047X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Language, and Reason written by Michel Meyer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary or postmodern thought is based on the lack of foundation. The impossibility of having a principle for philosophy has become a position of principle. As a result, rhetoric has taken over. Content has given way to the priority of form. Michel Meyer's book aims at showing that philosophy as foundational is possible and necessary, and that rhetoric can flourish alongside, but the conception of reason must be changed. Questioning rather than answering must be considered as the guiding principle. What the author calls &"problematology&" is not only the study of questioning but also the analysis of the reasons why it has been repressed throughout the history of philosophy. Since Socrates, philosophers and scientists have reasoned by asking questions and by trying to solve them. Questioning has been the unthematized foundation of philosophy and thought at large. Philosophers, however, have preferred another norm, granting privilege to the answers and thereby repressing the questions into the realm of the preliminary and unessential. They have not considered their discursive practice as being based upon some question-answer (or problem-solution) complex, but exclusively on the results they call propositions. Meyer argues that propositions ensue from corresponding questions, and not the other way around. Anthropology, ontology, reasoning, and language thus receive a new interpretation in the problematological conception of philosophy, a conception in which questions and problems are thematized afresh. The theory of language in everyday use, in argumentation, or in literary analysis receives a full and decisive treatment here, making Meyer's question-view one of the leading theories in contemporary thought, alongside his rhetoric for which he is already well known.

Seeing Reason

Author : Keith Stenning
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198507734
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Reason written by Keith Stenning and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes the following features: A new volume in the renowned Oxford Cognitive Science Series; Presents important new findings on human reasoning and reasoning skills; Explores the relationship between cognitive and social aspects of communication and reasoning; Trulyinterdisciplinary - accessible to both psychologists and philosophers

Studies in Language and Reason

Author : Ilham Dilman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349053120
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Language and Reason written by Ilham Dilman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making it Explicit

Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674543300
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Making it Explicit written by Robert Brandom and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where accounts of the relation between language and mind often rest on the concept of representation, Brandom sets out an approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. It is the first attempt to work out a detailed theory rendering linguistic meaning in terms of use.

Poetic Interaction

Author : John McCumber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226557038
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Interaction written by John McCumber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-01-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Interaction presents an original approach to the history of philosophy in order to elaborate a fresh theory that accounts for the place freedom in the Western philosophical tradition. In his thorough analysis of the aesthetic theories of Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant, John McCumber shows that the interactionist perspective recently put forth by Jürgen Habermas was in fact already present in some form in the German Enlightenment and in Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. McCumber's historical placement of the interactionist perspective runs counter to both Habermas's own views and to those of scholars who would locate the origin of these developments in American pragmatism. From the metaphysical approaches of Plato and Aristotle to the interactionist approaches of Habermas and Albrecht Wellmer, McCumber provides an original narrative of the history of philosophy that focuses on the ways that each thinker has formulated the relationships between language, truth, and freedom. Finally, McCumber presents his critical demarcation of various forms of freedom to reveal that the interactionist approach has to be expanded and enlarged to include all that is understood by "poetic interaction." For McCumber, freedom is inherently pluralistic. Poetic Interaction will be invaluable to political philosophers, historians of philosophy, philosophers of language, and scholars of legal criticism.

Against Pure Reason

Author : Johann G. Herder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597520640
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Against Pure Reason written by Johann G. Herder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Johann Gottfried Herder looms increasingly important not only for his prescient contributions to many fields - biblical criticism, philosophy of language, literary criticism, philosophy of history - but also for his pivotal position between the impulses of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Many of Herder's questions and concerns are more pressing at the end of the modern era than they were at its inception. Bunge's lucid and engaging translations of signal texts from Herder - most appearing here for the first time in English - are arranged thematically: human nature, language, and history; myth and religion; God and nature; literature and the Bible; and Christianity and theology. Along with her extensive Introduction and Bibliography, they constitute an essential resource for coming to terms with the checkered legacy of the Enlightenment.

Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance

Author : Jonathan Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143747
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance written by Jonathan Hope and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that 'language' is not separable from 'ideas'; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, 'late style' and much, much more. After reading Hope's book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way.' (Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford) Our understanding of words, and how they get their meanings, relies on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions - things which simply did not exist in the Renaissance. At that time, language was speech rather than writing; a word was by definition a collection of sounds not letters - and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to fully appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay and they also account for the rift that opened up between Shakespeare and us as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. His comprehensive study explores the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and contemporary ways of studying his language using computers.