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The Philosophy of Charles Travis

Author : John Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191086509
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Charles Travis written by John Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy. The work of Charles Travis is fundamentally situated in the analytical tradition, yet is also radically at odds with many assumptions characteristic of the tradition, especially as regards the nature of language and perception as representational capacities. Twelve philosophers explore themes in his work, and Travis gives extended responses. The editors provide an introductory chapter which situates Travis's ideas in the context of contemporary philosophy of language and mind. The volume divides into three sections, relating to language, thought, and perception. Topics covered in detail include: the nature of linguistic and perceptual representation; Frege; Wittgenstein; the role of context in fixing speech content; and the structure of thought.

Unshadowed Thought

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003392
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Unshadowed Thought written by Charles Travis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. It rejects the idea that thoughts are essentially representational items whose content is independent of context. In doing so, it undermines the foundations of much contemporary philosophy of mind.

Thought's Footing

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562377
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Thought's Footing written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding that there are indefinitely many ways of filling out (giving content to) the notion of truth.. The truth of a thought or utterance is connected with the consequences of thinking or saying it. That is the point of Wittgenstein's introduction of the notion of a language game. The second key theme is this: a representation of things as being a certain way cannot take the right form for truth-bearing without a background of agreement in judgements: its form must belong to thinkers of a given kind. The third key theme is that the proprietary perceptions of a given sort of thinker as to what would be a case of judging when there is a particular way for things to be is not subject to criticism from outside it. Along the way Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the problem of singular thought, the notion of a proposition, rule-following, sense and nonsense, the possibility of private language, and the representational content of experience. The result is an original and stimulating demonstration of the continuing value of Wittgenstein's work for central debates in philosophy today.

Objectivity and the Parochial

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199596212
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Objectivity and the Parochial written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Travis investigates a central problem in philosophy, one of the most puzzling. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. Objectivity and the Parochial suggests how we might resolve this paradox.

The Philosophy of Charles Travis

Author : COLLINS AND DOBLER.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191826566
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Charles Travis written by COLLINS AND DOBLER. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy. Twelve philosophers explore themes in his work, in sections focused on language, thought, and perception; and Travis responds.

Frege

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582437
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Frege written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Gottlob Frege. The guiding thought is that Frege left philosophy a legacy which has been largely ignored, not least of all by his admirers. In order of logical priority, Frege's first concern was to locate the law-like behaviour of truths and falsehoods merely by virtue of their being such (in his terms, the structure of Wahrsein). The just-mentioned legacy lies in his first step towards that goal. It consists in winnowing the 'logical' from the 'psychological', the business of being true as such from that of holding, or holding forth as true-and to keep these separate. A first lesson: what belongs to what is thus abstracted cannot be read directly back into what it was abstracted from. This is what is most widely ignored. The book is divided in three parts. The first presents Frege's general picture of the business of being true-of what belongs to the abstraction. The second is primarily concerned with steps Frege takes (in print) between 1891 and 1895, to pave the way for what became, after logic itself, his central project, that whose attempted carrying out is contained in Grundgesetze I. The third part concerns views of logic, truth, the inexorableness of logic, which Frege eventually came to hold, and what it might be to study 'The Mind' as opposed to minds.

Perception

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199676542
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Perception written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Travis presents a series of essays on philosophy of perception, inspired by the insights of Gottlob Frege. He engages with a range of contemporary thinkers, and explores key issues including how perception can make the world bear on what we do or think, and what sorts of capacities we draw on in representing something as (being) something.

Occasion-Sensitivity

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199230331
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Occasion-Sensitivity written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions. The implications of this view are intriguing.

Frege

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198844123
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Frege written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Gottlob Frege. The guiding thought is that Frege left philosophy a legacy which has been largely ignored, not least of all by his admirers. In order of logical priority, Frege's first concern was to locate the law-like behaviour of truths and falsehoods merely by virtue of their being such (in his terms, the structure of Wahrsein). The just-mentioned legacy lies in his first step towards that goal. It consists in winnowing the 'logical' from the 'psychological', the business of being true as such from that of holding, or holding forth as true-and to keep these separate. A first lesson: what belongs to what is thus abstracted cannot be read directly back into what it was abstracted from. This is what is most widely ignored. The book is divided in three parts. The first presents Frege's general picture of the business of being true-of what belongs to the abstraction. The second is primarily concerned with steps Frege takes (in print) between 1891 and 1895, to pave the way for what became, after logic itself, his central project, that whose attempted carrying out is contained in Grundgesetze I. The third part concerns views of logic, truth, the inexorableness of logic, which Frege eventually came to hold, and what it might be to study 'The Mind' as opposed to minds.

The Uses of Sense

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199245871
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Sense written by Charles Travis and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uses of Sense provides a novel account of Wittgenstein's view of language as expressed in the Philosophical Investigations. Charles Travis argues that Wittgenstein's view is a radical break with a still-dominant Fregean tradition. On this basis, Travis gives an original treatment of the significance of private language and of other major themes in the Investigations, such as family resemblance and language games.

Seeing Things as They are

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199385157
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Things as They are written by John R. Searle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.

Toward a Contextual Realism

Author : Jocelyn Benoist
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248481
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Contextual Realism written by Jocelyn Benoist and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning philosopher bridges the continental-analytic divide with an important contribution to the debate on the meaning of realism. Jocelyn Benoist argues for a philosophical point of view that prioritizes the concept of reality. The human mindÕs attitudes toward reality, he posits, both depend on reality and must navigate within it. Refusing the path of metaphysical realism, which would make reality an object of speculation in itself, independent of any reflection on our ways of approaching it or thinking about it, Benoist defends the idea of an intentionality placed in realityÑcontextualized. Intentionality is an essential part of any realist philosophical position; BenoistÕs innovation is to insist on looking to context to develop a renewed realism that draws conclusions from contemporary philosophy of language and applies them methodically to issues in the fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of the mind. ÒWhat there isÓÑthe traditional subject of metaphysicsÑcan be determined only in context. Benoist offers a sharp criticism of acontextual ontology and acontextual approaches to the mind and reality. At the same time, he opposes postmodern anti-realism and the semantic approach characteristic of classic analytic philosophy. Instead, Toward a Contextual Realism bridges the analytic-continental divide while providing the foundation for a radically contextualist philosophy of mind and metaphysics. ÒTo beÓ is to be in a context.

Wittgenstein and Perception

Author : Michael Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543033
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Perception written by Michael Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Wittgenstein was preoccupied with issues in the philosophy of perception. Despite this, little attention has been paid to this aspect of Wittgenstein's work. This volume redresses this lack, by bringing together an international group of leading philosophers to focus on the impact of Wittgenstein's work on the philosophy of perception. The ten specially commissioned chapters draw on the complete range of Wittgenstein's writings, from his earliest to latest extant works, and combine both exegetical approaches with engagements with contemporary philosophy of mind. Topics covered include: perception and judgement in the Tractatus aspect-perception the putative intentionality of perception representationalism. The book also includes an overview which summarises the evolution of Wittgenstein's views on perception throughout his life. With an outstanding array of contributors, Wittgenstein and Perception is essential reading for students and scholars of Wittgenstein’s work, as well as those working in philosophy of mind and philosophy of perception. Contributors: Yasuhiro Arahata, Michael Campbell, William Child, Daniel Hutto, Michael O’Sullivan, Marie McGinn, Michel terHark, Charles Travis, and José Zalabardo.

The True and the False

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027225125
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The True and the False written by Charles Travis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal i.e., nonlanguage-specific character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.

The Logical Alien

Author : Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242831
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Logical Alien written by Sofia Miguens and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.” —Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time? Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of competing answers. A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant’s “The Search for Logically Alien Thought,” placed that question at the forefront of contemporary philosophical inquiry. The Logical Alien, edited by Sofia Miguens, gathers Conant’s original article with reflections on it by eight distinguished philosophers—Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, and Charles Travis. Conant follows with a wide-ranging response that places the philosophical discussion in historical context, critiques his original paper, addresses the exegetical and systematic issues raised by others, and presents an alternative account. The Logical Alien challenges contemporary conceptions of how logical and philosophical form must each relate to their content. This monumental volume offers the possibility of a new direction in philosophy.

Logic, Thought and Language

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521529662
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Logic, Thought and Language written by Anthony O'Hear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Edited by Jay F. Rosenberg ... and Charles Travis

Author : Jay Frank ROSENBERG (and TRAVIS (Charles Stephen))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780137593323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Edited by Jay F. Rosenberg ... and Charles Travis written by Jay Frank ROSENBERG (and TRAVIS (Charles Stephen)) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: