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Nonsense, Truth, and the Ineffability

Author : James R. Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Nonsense, Truth, and the Ineffability written by James R. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I integrate my accounts of anomaly and ineffability into a resolution of the liar paradox based on the idea that liar sentences ("This sentence is false") are a form of semantic anomaly. I argue that this view is both well-motivated and sufficient to resolve the liar paradox in its strengthened forms. I support this claim by constructing a new formal theory of truth. In general, such theories are assessed based on their ability to preserve intuitive hallmarks of semantics and logic while accommodating expressive power. I argue that my theory embodies the least radical, consistent response to the paradox by showing that it requires only logical, semantic, or expressive sacrifices that are independently motivated by the existence of anomaly or the paradoxes of ineffability.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134248393
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus written by Michael Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes: Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the Tractatus the ideas and text of the Tractatus the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today, Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

A Companion to Wittgenstein

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118641167
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Wittgenstein by : Hans-Johann Glock

Download or read book A Companion to Wittgenstein written by Hans-Johann Glock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein’s thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. Full of penetrating insights into the life and work of the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, the collection explores the full range of Wittgenstein’s contribution to philosophy. It includes essays on his intellectual development, his work in logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and much else. As well as examining Wittgenstein’s contribution to human understanding in detail, the Companion features vital contextual analysis that traces the relationship between his ideas and those of other philosophers and schools of thought, including the Aristotelian and continental philosophical traditions. Authors also address prominent themes that remain current in today’s philosophical debates, explaining Wittgenstein’s continuing legacy alongside his historical significance. Essential reading for scholars of philosophy at all levels, A Companion to Wittgenstein combines engaging commentary with unrivaled academic authority.

Wittgenstein's Private Language

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191565212
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Private Language written by Stephen Mulhall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell's interpretations of these remarks; and relates disputes about how to interpret this aspect of Wittgenstein's later philosophy to a recent, highly influential controversy about how to interpret Wittgenstein's early text, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by drawing and testing out a distinction between resolute and substantial understandings of the related notions of grammar, nonsense and the imagination. The book is concerned throughout to elucidate Wittgenstein's philosophical method, and to establish the importance of the form or style of his writing to the proper application of this method.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Author : Andreas Georgallides
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527574830
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by : Andreas Georgallides

Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus written by Andreas Georgallides and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection explores Wittgenstein’s early work, with a particular focus on his Tractatus, which examines the relation between language and the world, and which makes the distinction between saying and showing. The book considers the topics of logic, ontology, metaphysics, and the epistemological and moral aspects of Tractatus.

The New Wittgenstein

Author : Alice Crary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134689969
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The New Wittgenstein written by Alice Crary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein and sheds light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical positions and areas of human concern.

Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839983485
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein by : Hans-Johann Glock

Download or read book Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein written by Hans-Johann Glock and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial introduction. The first part links meaning, necessity and normativity. It defends and modifies Wittgenstein’s claim that the idea of a ‘grammatical rule’ holds the key to understanding linguistic meaning and its connection to necessary truth. The second part elucidates the connections between meaning, concepts and thought in Wittgenstein and beyond. It shows how he laid the grounds for a sound understanding of four contested issues—radical interpretation, concepts, nonsense and animal minds. The third part provides a qualified defence of Wittgenstein’s controversial idea that philosophical problems are conceptual, and thereby rooted in confusions concerning the meanings of and semantic relations between linguistic expressions. Against irrationalist interpretations, it demonstrates that Wittgenstein’s method is argumentative rather than therapeutic. The collection as a whole makes a powerful case for an analytic perspective on Wittgenstein. The essays bring out the abiding relevance of Wittgenstein’s reflections to contemporary debates on central topics such as the role of normativity, the foundations of linguistic meaning, the nature of concepts, the possibility of animal thought, and the proper methods of philosophy.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Peter Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665788
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Peter Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new studies of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate. They cover a wide range of themes, and show that close investigation into the composition of the work, and into the various influences on it, has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought.

The Black Book

Author : Richard A. Jones
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761861343
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Black Book written by Richard A. Jones and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race attempts to highlight the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. Richard A. Jones argues that Wittgenstein’s early Tractarian views on logical atomism and his later more holistic views from his work Philosophical Investigations are exceedingly relevant to African American philosophy. The Black Book investigates the epistemic, linguistic, and political grounds from which inspiration might be drawn. Ultimately, as philosophy attempts to redefine itself in a postmodern discourse where it has been deigned “concluded,” it is the “awe for the ordinary” that Wittgenstein inspires and that should re-inspire the creative imaginary in Africana thought. The Black Book is an attempt to show that Wittgenstein’s work continues to be important, not only for African American philosophers, but for all philosophers.

Language, World, and Limits

Author : A. W. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198823649
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Language, World, and Limits written by A. W. Moore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by A.W. Moore is concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The chapters in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their nature, the sorites paradox, and the very distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein's work, both early and late, figures prominently. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that somethings are beyond representation. The essays in Part Two deal with representation more generally and with the character of what is represented, and owe much to Bernard Williams's argument for thepossibility of representation from no point of view. They touch more or less directly on the distinction between representation from a point of view and representation from no point of view-in some cases by exploring various consequences of Kant's belief that representation of how things are physically is always, eo ipso, representation from a point of view. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that nothing is beyond representation. Each of the chapters in Part Three, which drawinspiration from the early work of Wittgenstein, indicate how the resulting tension between Parts One and Two is to be resolved: namely, by construing the first part as a thesis about states of knowledge orunderstanding, and the second part as a thesis about facts or truths.

Beyond The Tractatus Wars

Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136719393
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Beyond The Tractatus Wars written by Rupert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, and this book draws together the latest thinking of the world’s leading Tractatarian scholars and promising newcomers. Showcasing one piece alternately from each “camp”, Beyond the Tractatus Wars pairs newly commissioned pieces addressing differing views on how to understand early Wittgenstein, providing for the first time an arena in which the debate between “strong” resolutists, “mild” resolutists and “elucidatory” readers of the book can really take place. The collection includes famous “samizdat” essays by Warren Goldfarb and Roger White that are finally seeing the light of day.

Wittgenstein, Part I: Essays

Author : P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631219862
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein, Part I: Essays written by P. M. S. Hacker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth and final volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers pp 428-693 of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis.

A Confusion of the Spheres

Author : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199229821
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Confusion of the Spheres written by Genia Schönbaumsfeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophy, but there has been little serious commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schönbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's intriguing and influential conceptions of philosophy and religious belief.

Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy

Author : Oskari Kuusela
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565311
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy written by Oskari Kuusela and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and Strawson. He argues that not only the early but also the later Wittgenstein sought to further develop the logical-philosophical approaches of his contemporaries. Throughout his career Wittgenstein's aim was to resolve problems with and address the limitations of Frege's and Russell's accounts of logic and their logical methodologies so as to achieve the philosophical progress that originally motivated the logical-philosophical approach. By re-examining the roots and development of analytic philosophy, Kuusela seeks to open up covered up paths for the further development of analytic philosophy. Offering a novel interpretation of the philosopher, he explains how Wittgenstein extends logical methodology beyond calculus-based logical methods and how his novel account of the status of logic enables one to do justice to the complexity and richness of language use and thought while retaining rigour and ideals of logic such as simplicity and exactness. In addition, this volume outlines the new kind of non-empiricist naturalism developed in Wittgenstein's later work and explaining how his account of logic can be used to dissolve the long-standing methodological dispute between the ideal and ordinary language schools of analytic philosophy. It is of interest to scholars, researchers, and advance students of philosophy interested in engaging with a number of scholarly debates.

Ineffability and Philosophy

Author : André Kukla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134299710
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Ineffability and Philosophy written by André Kukla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion.

Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion

Author : Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351903349
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion written by Pamela Sue Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited and prohibited women from thinking and writing their own ideas, this book lays fresh ground for re-visioning the epistemic practices of philosophers. Pamela Sue Anderson seeks both to draw out the salient threads in the gendering of philosophy of religion as it has been practiced and to re-vision gender for philosophy today. The arguments put forth by contemporary philosophers of religion concerning human and divine attributes are epistemically located; yet the motivation to recognize this locatedness has to come from a concern for justice. This book presents invaluable new perspectives on the philosopher’s ever-increasing awareness of his or her own locatedness, on the gender (often unwittingly) given to God, the ineffability in both analytic and Continental philosophy, the still critical role of reason in the field, the aims of a feminist philosophy of religion, the roles of beauty and justice, the vision of love and reason, and a gendering which opens philosophy of religion up to diversity.

Free Speech Beyond Words

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479805513
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Free Speech Beyond Words written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting “the freedom of speech,” even though none involves what we typically think of as speech—the use of words to convey meaning. As a legal matter, the Court’s conclusion is clearly correct, but its premises are murky, and they raise difficult questions about the possibilities and limitations of law and expression. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense do not employ language in any traditional sense, and sometimes do not even involve the transmission of articulable ideas. How, then, can they be treated as “speech” for constitutional purposes? What does the difficulty of that question suggest for First Amendment law and theory? And can law resolve such inquiries without relying on aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy? Comprehensive and compelling, this book represents a sustained effort to account, constitutionally, for these modes of “speech.” While it is firmly centered in debates about First Amendment issues, it addresses them in a novel way, using subject matter that is uniquely well suited to the task, and whose constitutional salience has been under-explored. Drawing on existing legal doctrine, aesthetics, and analytical philosophy, three celebrated law scholars show us how and why speech beyond words should be fundamental to our understanding of the First Amendment.