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Philosophical Essays, Volume 1

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691136815
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

Analytic Philosophy in America

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117640X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy in America written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition. The central essay chronicles how analytic philosophy developed in the United States out of American pragmatism, the impact of European visitors and immigrants, the midcentury transformation of the Harvard philosophy department, and the rapid spread of the analytic approach that followed. Another essay explains the methodology guiding analytic philosophy, from the logicism of Frege and Russell through Wittgenstein's linguistic turn and Carnap's vision of replacing metaphysics with philosophy of science. Further essays review advances in logic and the philosophy of mathematics that laid the foundation for a rigorous, scientific study of language, meaning, and information. Other essays discuss W.V.O. Quine, David K. Lewis, Saul Kripke, the Frege-Russell analysis of quantification, Russell's attempt to eliminate sets with his "no class theory," and the Quine-Carnap dispute over meaning and ontology. The collection then turns to topics at the frontier of philosophy of language. The final essays, combining philosophy of language and law, advance a sophisticated originalist theory of interpretation and apply it to U.S. constitutional rulings about due process.

Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400760043
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy written by Georgios Anagnostopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. They explore the concept of reason and the method of analysis and the central role they play in the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They engage with salient themes in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political theory, as well as tracing links between each thinker’s ideas on selected topics. The volume contains analyses of Plato’s Socrates, focusing on his views of moral psychology, the obligation to obey the law, the foundations of politics, justice and retribution, and Socratic virtue. On Plato’s Republic, the discussions cover the relationship between politics and philosophy, the primacy of reason over the soul’s non-rational capacities, the analogy of the city and the soul, and our responsibility for choosing how we live our own lives. The anthology also probes Plato’s analysis of logos (reason or language) which underlies his philosophy including the theory of forms. A quartet of reflections explores Aristotelian themes including the connections between knowledge and belief, the nature of essence and function, and his theories of virtue and grace. The volume concludes with an insightful intellectual memoir by David Keyt which charts the rise of analytic classical scholarship in the past century and along the way provides entertaining anecdotes involving major figures in modern academic philosophy. Blending academic authority with creative flair and demonstrating the continuing interest of ancient Greek philosophy, this book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all those studying and researching the origins of Western philosophy.

What is Value?

Author : Everett W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829603
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book What is Value? written by Everett W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy series and focuses on value with an essay in Philosophical Analysis.

Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

Author : Dickinson S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401017921
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare written by Dickinson S. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.

Essays in Philosophical Analysis

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975769
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Philosophical Analysis written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the twentieth century; the second part features essays on epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, the theory of historiography, and the logic of temporal concepts. Despite the range of topics, all essays are closely integrated at the methodological level.

Philosophical Analysis

Author : Max Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829015676
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis written by Max Black and published by . This book was released on 1984-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in the Philosophical Analysis

Author : Seiji Ueda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophical Analysis written by Seiji Ueda and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis

Author : Linda Brakel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199581479
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis by : Linda Brakel

Download or read book Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis written by Linda Brakel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis', Linda Brakel tackles a range of fascinating and puzzling phenomena that lie at the border between psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind. These include - unconscious knowing, vagueness, agency, the placebo effect, and even explanation itself. Unique in its use of tools and concepts from both philosophy and psychoanalysis, the book demonstrates how this interdisciplinary approach can provide some unique solutions to some impenetrable problems. Following the introduction, chapter two on 'unconscious knowing' puts forward a radical epistemological view of knowledge and belief, providing evidence from psychoanalytic data and empirical research, using the subliminal method. Chapter three considers philosophical accounts of vagueness in relation to a-rational mentation, finding surprising similarities. In Chapter four, an original account of agency is developed whilst discovering that a central problem for analysands is quite analogous to an important philosophical problem: namely, when I am concerned with my own survival, just what is the nature of the 'me' of concern? In Chapter five the mysterious placebo effect is made more understandable in terms of the basic psychoanalytic concepts that are shown to underlie it. Finally, chapter six concludes the book with an examination of explanations in general, including those in the proceeding chapters. This is a book that will be of great interest to those within both psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind, offering up some compelling explanations for some puzzling phenomena.

Problems of Analysis

Author : Max Black
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Analysis written by Max Black and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971-11-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in the Philosophical Analysis: Problems of analytic philosophy

Author : Seiji Ueda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophical Analysis: Problems of analytic philosophy written by Seiji Ueda and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in the Philosophical Analysis: Language, meaning and value

Author : Seiji Ueda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophical Analysis: Language, meaning and value written by Seiji Ueda and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophical Analysis

Author : Max Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis written by Max Black and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Emotions

Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199740194
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book On Emotions written by John Deigh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity, personal identity, self-knowledge, and science. Several break new ground in the field. Others extend and deepen work for which their authors are well-known. All but two of the essays are new. Contributors include Noel Carroll, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Woodruff, Laurence Thomas, Kathleen Higgins, Michael Stocker, Nancy Sherman, Jerome Neu, Charles Nussbaum, and Robert Roberts. The book honors the memory of Robert C. Solomon, whose influential work in the philosophy of emotions helped mold the field for over three decades. An introductory essay explains the development and importance of Solomon's thought in this field.

Idleness

Author : Brian O'Connor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204500
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Idleness written by Brian O'Connor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In Idleness, the first book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity, Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed--and that idle aimlessness may instead allow for the highest form of freedom. Idleness explores how some of the most influential modern philosophers drew a direct connection between making the most of our humanity and avoiding laziness. Idleness was dismissed as contrary to the need people have to become autonomous and make whole, integrated beings of themselves (Kant); to be useful (Kant and Hegel); to accept communal norms (Hegel); to contribute to the social good by working (Marx); and to avoid boredom (Schopenhauer and de Beauvoir). O'Connor throws doubt on all these arguments, presenting a sympathetic vision of the inactive and unserious that draws on more productive ideas about idleness, from ancient Greece through Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Schiller and Marcuse's thoughts about the importance of play, and recent critiques of the cult of work. A thought-provoking reconsideration of productivity for the twenty-first century, Idleness shows that, from now on, no theory of what it means to have a free mind can exclude idleness from the conversation."--Provided by publisher

Philosophical Provocations

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262340100
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Provocations written by Colin McGinn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics. In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on philosophical problems ranging from the concept of mind to paradox, altruism, and the relation between God and the Devil. Avoiding the usual scholarly apparatus and embracing a blunt pithiness, McGinn aims to achieve as much as possible in as short a space as possible while covering as many topics as possible. Much academic philosophical writing today is long, leaden, citation heavy, dense with qualifications, and painful to read. The essays in Philosophical Provocations are short, direct, and engaging, often challenging philosophical orthodoxy as they consider issues in mind, language, knowledge, metaphysics, biology, ethics, and religion. McGinn is looking for new ways to think about old problems. Thus he writes, about consciousness, “I think we have been all wrong,” and goes on to suggest that both consciousness and the unconscious are mysteries. Summing up his proposal on altruism, he remarks, “My suggestion can now be stated, somewhat brutally, as follows: human altruism is the result of parasitic manipulation.” He takes a moment to reflect: “I really don't know why it is good to be alive, though I am convinced that the standard suggestions don't work.” McGinn gets straight to the point and states his position with maximum clarity. These essays offer provocative invitations to think again.

Exercises in Analysis

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521256841
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Exercises in Analysis written by Ian Hacking and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of specially commissioned essays of analytical philosophy, on topics of current interest in ethics and the philosophy of logic and language. Among the topics discussed are the making of wicked promises, G. E. Moore's early ethical views, as well as indexicals, tense, indeterminism, conventionalism in mathematics, and identity and necessity. The essays are all by former students of Casimir Lewy, until recently Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and an exponent of a particularly thoroughgoing form of philosophical analysis. Together, they represent some of the best work in these areas at present, and express what may be described as a characteristic 'Cambridge' voice.