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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Epistemology of Language Use
Book SynopsisArley Ramos Moreno, a pioneering Brazilian philosopher, makes an important contribution to current discussions around meaning, knowledge and symbolism in the first English translation of his work.Connecting philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics and phenomenology, Moreno builds on the legacy of Wittgenstein. His focus is on the ways of producing meaning that involve the circumstances of the enunciation and applications of words. He explores interlocutions, the different techniques for assigning names to things and the forms of ties between words and techniques that allow us to engage with diverse objects, from emotions and attitudes to physical and abstract entities. Extending Wittgenstein's therapeutic philosophy and representing a significant step towards integrating the Kantian transcendental into the pragmatic domain, this ambitious project is edited by a team of scholars who worked closely with Moreno. They bring to light Moreno's ab
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism
Book SynopsisSandra Laugier is a Professor of Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France.Isabel G. Gamero Cabrera is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at Complutense University, SpainJasmin Trächtler Assistant Professor at the TU Dortmund, Germany.Camille Braune is completing her PhD thesis at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France.
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Springer Causation Coherence and Concepts A Collection of Essays Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 256 Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Book SynopsisWolfgang Spohn is one of the most distinguished analytic philosophers in Germany. His work covers a huge range including epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This collection presents 15 of his most important essays on theoretical philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Belief Ch. 1: Ordinal Conditional Functions. A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic States 30 pp. Causation Ch. 2: Direct and Indirect Causes ca. 36 pp. Ch. 3: Bayesian Nets Are All There Is To Causal Dependence 16 pp. Ch. 4: Causation: An Alternative ca. 28 pp. Ch. 5: Causal Laws are Objectifications of Inductive Schemes 30 pp. Laws Ch. 6: Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief 22 pp. Ch. 7: Enumerative Induction and Lawlikeness ca. 24 pp. Ch. 8: Chance and Necessity: From Humean Supervenience to Humean Projection ca. 36 pp. Coherence Ch. 9: A Reason for Explanation: Explanations Provide Stable Reasons 32 pp. Ch. 10: Two Coherence Principles 21 pp. Ch. 11: How to Understand the Foundations of Empirical Belief in a Coherentist Way 18 pp. Concepts Ch. 12: A Priori Reasons: Fresh Look at Dispositions ca. 24 pp. Ch. 13: The Character of Color Predicates: A Materialist View 29 pp. Ch. 14: Concepts Are Beliefs About Essences [with Ulrike Haas-Spohn] 30 pp. Ch. 15: The Intentional versus the Propositional Conception of the Objects of Belief ca. 26 pp. Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bourdieu Language and Linguistics
Book SynopsisMichael Grenfell is Professor in the School of Education, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He has researched and published extensively in Applied Linguistics and the Philosophy of Education. He had a longstanding association with Bourdieu and is author of four other books on his work, including Agent Provocateur (Continuum).Trade Review"If language is the medium of education, as Grenfell, and the authors of this book (and Bourdieu) would say, then this book is a must for all scholars of language in education, and those who would wish to understand and reflect on educational processes and practices. This book brings a passion, energy and commitment to that task that, as Bourdieu himself would do, challenges and contends with contemporary structures and debates in a lively and provocative manner. (Kate Pahl, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK)"Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I; 2. Bourdieu: A Theory of Practice, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 3. Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Part II; 4. Language Variation (Phonetics and Phonology), Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 5. Language and Ideology, Robert Vann (Western Michigan University, USA); 6. Linguistic Ethnography, Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, UK); 7. Language Policy, Stephen May (University of Waikato, New Zealand); 8. Language and Education, Cheryl Hardy (John Moores University, Liverpool, UK); Part III; 9. Towards a Bourdieusian Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 10. Conclusion Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Philosophy of Language
Trade ReviewThis is a lucid, engaging, but also rigorous, introduction to the philosophy of language. It will make an excellent undergraduate textbook and I recommend it very strongly to anyone looking for a clear introduction to this topic. -- Anthony Everett, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UKAn outstanding introduction to the philosophy of language as well as to the thought of such major contributors to the area. Written with admirable clarity it will prove accessible to undergraduates encountering the subject for the first time. -- André Gallois, Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, New York, USAAn excellent introduction to the subject and its history. Written with Daly's characteristic lucidity, it covers the essential details of this technical discipline in a way that should be readily accessible to beginners. Advanced students and professionals, too, will benefit from Daly's sophisticated—yet eminently readable—presentation of the subject.I look forward to teaching this book. -- Paul Audi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USAA chief virtue of Daly's book is that it's philosophically nuanced yet written in a way that complex ideas are accessible to students. I look forward to using this textbook in my own introduction to philosophy of language course. -- Kelly Trogdon, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, SAR ChinaTable of ContentsPreface \ Introduction \ 1. Frege on Names \ 2. Frege on Predication \ 3. Frege on Sentences \ 4. Frege on Force and Tone \ 5. Russell on Definite Descriptions \ 6. Grice on Meaning \ 7. Grice on Conversation \ 8. Quine on Meaning \ 9. Davidson on Extensional Theories of Meaning \ 10. Lewis on Intensional Theories of Meaning \ Conclusion \ Glossary \ References \ Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotle Prior Analytics 13246 Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Book SynopsisIan Mueller is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Big Bang Theory What it is Where it Came from and Why it Works by Karen C Fox Mar2002
Book SynopsisManuel García-Carpintero is Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.Max Kölbel is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.Trade ReviewUnlike many anthologies, this is not a mere collection of seminal works in the recent history of the field, but rather a collection of contemporary essays written with the professed purpose of introducing students and scholars to the field. Each of the original essays provides both a critical history of the fundamental concepts central to the philosophy of language and a pointed analysis of the issues involved from the contributor's own point of view. The result is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in either the history of the discipline or the state of the contemporary debate. * CHOICE *Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel have succeeded in compiling a set of eleven wonderfully clear and highly accessible overview articles on philosophy of language. This is a terrific collection with a couple of real gems, for example Josh Dever's wonderful introduction to formal semantics. The articles are generally informative, concise, and a pleasure to read. I am convinced that even experts in philosophy of language will benefit from working through the volume. García-arpintero and Kölbel have assembled an extremely impressive lineup of contributors and the essays are quite generally clear, concise and comprehensive in their coverage. These essays will be very useful for people who already have some level of training in philosophy of language or linguistics and are looking to get up to speed on various topics. I am sure I will revisit the Continuum Companion many times in the future. * Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Anders J. Schoubye, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface 1. Editorial Introduction: the History of the Philosophy of Language Manuel García-Carpintero 2. On the Nature of Language: A Basic Exposition James Higginbotham 3. Formal Semantics Josh Dever 4. Theories of Meaning and Truth Conditions Kathrin Glüer 5. Reference Genoveva Martí 6. Intensional Contexts Michael Nelson 7. Context Dependence Kent Bach 8. Pragmatics François Recanati 9. Semantic Normativity and Naturalism José L. Zalabardo 10. Analyticity, Apriority, Modality Albert Casullo 11. New Directions in the Philosophy of Language Max Kölbel A-Z of Key Terms Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dialectic of the Ladder Wittgenstein the Tractatus and Modernism
Book SynopsisBen Ware is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewGiven the fierce complexity of Wittgenstein’s thought, Ware is to be praised for the clear exposition of his philosophy and for the many helpful suggestions he proffers for how the philosopher’s ideas might be relevant to those studying modernism. * Key Words *Overall, Benjamin Ware's dialectical reading of the Tractacus is a very stimulating and successful attempt to interpret the literature. I hope to read more from him! * Wittgenstein-Studien (Bloomsbury translation) *[Ware] broadens the context of existing discussions of the early Wittgenstein's relation to modernist critiques of culture in a very helpful way ... Anyone interested in the text will benefit from engaging with this stimulating work. * British Wittgenstein Society *Ben Ware’s superb study does not only offer a lucid and original reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus; it also situate it with admirable skill in the context of literary modernism and in doing so casts radical new light on this notoriously difficult philosophical text. * Terry Eagleton *Ben Ware writes a refreshing, opinionated book about Tractatus, in which Ezra Pound, Ludwig Uhland, Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann and Julien Benda get a non-obvious place in a reading of Wittgenstein. (Bloomsbury translation) * Tijdschrift voor Filosofie *Departing from Wittgenstein's claim that the Tractatus is 'strictly philosophical and at the same time literary' Ben Ware succeeds in showing not only how it works as a contribution to literary modernism but also how this is inseparable from its philosophical achievement. He restores the strangeness to a text that we thought had become familiar and places it in the company of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal and Kafka. It is sure to send readers back to the Tractatus with renewed wonder and curiosity. * Howard Caygill, Professor Of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK *Ludwig Wittgenstein notoriously wrote to Bertrand Russell that nobody would ever understand his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; for students of modernism and the avant-gardes this is no longer true, thanks to Ben Ware’s exciting new study. With a majestic authorial voice Ware leads his readers to appreciate Wittgenstein’s short text as a vital part of modern literary history. In a challenging reading of Kafka, Ware further shows how Wittgenstein’s book carries within itself a singular way of reading and experiencing literature, as well as oneself. There is little more one can expect from a scholar’s work. A formidable achievement. * Sascha Bru, Assistant Professor Modern Literature and Theory, University of Leuven, Belgium *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Preface 1 Modernity-Modernism-Avant-Garde 2 Ethics and the Literary in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus 3 Modernity, Culture and the Question of Politics 4 The Tractatus, Modernism and the Limits of Language 5 Towards a Literary Use of Wittgenstein: The Tractatus and Kafka’s ‘Der Bau’ Notes References Index
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Strategic Book Publishing The Power of Arabic Logic: Learning How to Think in Arabic
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory
Book SynopsisAn important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato’s Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down. A Thracian servant girl laughs, amused that he sought to understand what was above him when he was not mindful of what was right in front of him. Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical events that would fit the label “theory.” By retelling the anecdote, philosophers reveal their distinctive values regarding absorption in curiosity, philosophy’s past, and the demand that theorists abide by sanctioned methods and procedures. In this work and others, Blumenberg demonstrates that philosophers’ most beloved images and anecdotes have become indispensable to philosophy as metaphors; that is, as representations whose meanings remain indefinite and invite frequent reinterpretation.Trade ReviewThis English translation of Das Lachen der Thrakerin, the original German of which first appeared with Suhrkamp in 1987, will no doubt intensify the impression among anglophone readers that Blumenberg is a decidedly historical and literary philosopher whose own thinking emerges from an almost obsessive level of engagement with the minutiae of Western intellectual history, including the genre of the philosophical anecdote ... Like many of Blumenberg's works, Das Lachen der Thrakerin demands a lot of the reader: a detailed knowledge of the Western tradition, not only of philosophy, but of letters in general, from the Presocratics to the present; and patience with an argumentative method which revels in the detours and the details, and which is thin on orienting summaries (here the highly informative Afterword and scholarly apparatus provided by Hawkins offer much historical context and orientation). * Modern Language Review *Greek astronomer Thales of Miletus was the original absent-minded professor. He was walking and studying the night sky, it is said, when he tripped and fell into a well, leading him to theorize that water—and not a god or gods—was the prime mover of reality. German-Jewish ‘philosophical anthropologist’ Blumenberg follows the myth of Thales through the ages to show that the scientific endeavor is necessary but also fundamentally ridiculous. It culminates with an attack on ‘incomprehensible arrogance’ as the most destructive human tendency, reaffirming modesty and skepticism. Today everything is made of data instead of water; Blumenberg, translated with great care by Spencer Hawkins, reminds me that we are still as ridiculous as Thales. -- David Auerbach * Slate Magazine *In its sweeping scope and singular focus, Hans Blumenberg’s The Laughter of the Thracian Woman provides a monadic history of how to read the beginning of thinking as located precisely at the nexus of storytelling and reflection, literature and philosophy. In Blumenberg’s series of relentless reconstructions and analyses, the telling and re-telling of the anecdote of Thales falling into a well – over and over again, from Plato to Heidegger, accompanied by the Thracian woman’s laughter – comes to form the central image for the tension within philosophy between theoretical reflection and intuitive insight. * Paul Fleming, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Director, Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS), Cornell University, USA *Hans Blumenberg stands as one of the most important and innovative thinkers of the twentieth century. As a philosopher, historian of science, and literary scholar, his work has made indispensable contributions to a broad range of fields across the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This impeccably nuanced translation of The Laughter of the Thracian Woman promises to enhance our understanding of Blumenberg’s methodology and the theoretical premises that drive his thought, while offering key insights into the perennial tensions between theory and realism, contemplation and action, philosophical reflection and the Lebenswelt. * John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading into the Distance About this book I. Theory as exotic behavior II. Socrates is shifted into protohistory III. Knowledge about heaven and capability on earth IV. The theorist between comedy and tragedy V. Reoccupations VI. Astrological predominance VII. Applause and scorn from the moralists VIII. As adopted by historical critique IX. From cursing sinners to scorn for the Creation X. Tycho Brahe's coachman and the earthquake in Lisbon XI. Absentmindednesses XII. In what matter Thales had failed according to Nietzsche XIII. How to recognize what matters IVX. Interdisciplinarity as repetition of protohistory Works Cited
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Lexington Books Art as Communication
Book SynopsisIs art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one artist? Is art an adaptation, via natural selection? In what ways is art similar toand different fromlanguage? Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling employs information theory, the theory of evolution, and the newly developed sender-receiver model of communication to reason about art, aesthetic behavior, and its communicative nature. Shawn Simpson considers whether art, from a biological point of view, is the province of only humans or whether animals might reasonably be said to create art. Examining the work of evolutionary biologists, art theorists, linguists, and philosophersincluding Charles Darwin, Stephen Davies, H. Paul Grice, and othershe addresses how well different theories of communication explain meaning and expression in art and argues that art is much more continuous with other forms of communication than previously thought.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives about Reference
Book SynopsisAna Clara Polakof is professor at the Linguistics Institute at Universidad de la República in Uruguay.
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Lexington Books The Autonomy of Reference
Book SynopsisIn The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals, Zoltán Vecsey defends a moderate autonomy thesis concerning the explanatory status of nominal reference. The autonomy thesis is based on the observation that the relational term of reference exhibits a specific resistance to systematizing attempts. The resistance can be observed on two complementary fronts. On the one hand, reference cannot be introduced into the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics in a de novo manner because every reasonable introductory technique must be built on such expressions that are already functioning in a relational mode. On the other hand, and for similar reasons, the term cannot simply be removed from the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics because every reasonable technique of removal must be built on expressions that are still functioning in a relational mode. Although reference is an autonomous aspect of meaning, in that it shows resistance to these attempts of systematisation, it should not be banished from linguistic theory as an unscientific phenomenon. Vecsey argues that this explanatory technique of reverse engineering, which has already been effectively used in the research practices of logic and mathematics, brings theoretical legitimacy to the term of reference.
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Lexington Books Amicable Ambiguity
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Benediction Classics Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Book Synopsis"A work of extraordinary difficulty and importance .... one which no serious philosopher can afford to neglect." -- Bertrand Russell.Ludwig Wittgenstein''s influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus explores the assumption that it is philosophy''s task to ''sanitize'' language. Therefore, it is necessary for philosophy to develop an artificial language that avoids the pitfalls of ordinary language. This is the only philosophical work Wittgenstein published in his lifetime. Laid out in succinct well-numbered paragraph, it is an essential read for those interested in the philosophy of language or understanding the influential figure of Wittgenstein.
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Bloomsbury Academic The Linguistic Carnival of Thought
Book SynopsisRein Raud is distinguished professor of Asian and cultural studies at the School of Humanities, University of Tallinn, Estonia.
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Hachette Livre - BNF La science de Dieu ou La création de l'homme (Éd.1900)
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Molecular Press Find an Angel and Pick a Fight
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Sdvig Press Ecrits Sur Le Langage
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History
Book SynopsisThe volume honours Eva Picardi – her philosophical views and interests, as well as her teaching – collecting eighteen essays, some by former students of hers, some by colleagues with whom she discussed and interacted. The themes of the volume encompass topics ranging from foundational and historical issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic and mathematics, as well as issues related to the recent debates on rationality, naturalism and the contextual aspects of meaning. The volume is split into three sections: one on Gottlob Frege’s work – in philosophy of language and logic –, taking into account also its historical dimension; one on Donald’s Davidson’s work; and one on the contextualism-literalism dispute about meaning and on naturalist research programmes such as Chomsky’s.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi and Sebastiano Moruzzi.- Section I: Themes from Frege.- 2 Early analytic philosophy's Austrian dimension; Kevin Mulligan.- 3. Truth, Ascriptions of Truth, and Grounds of Truth Ascriptions; Wolfgang Kuenne.- 4. On Frege's truth; Paolo Leonardi.- 5. Was Frege a logicist?.- Marco Panza.- 6. Logic as science; Robert May.- 7. Thin reference, metaontological minimalism and abstraction principles. The prospects for tolerant reductionism; Andrea Sereni.- 8. A context principle for the 21st century; Fabrizio Cariani.- 9. Slurs and tone; Ernie Lepore & Mathew Stone.- 10. Refusing to endorse: a must explanation for pejoratives; Carlo Penco.- 11. Fregean presentationalism; Elisabetta Sacchi.- Section II: Themes from Davidson.- 12. Agency without rationality; Lisa Bortolotti.- 13. Reasons and causes in psychiatry: Ideas from Donald Davidson’s work; Elisabetta Lalumera.- 14. The doxastic zoo; Pascal Engel.- Section III: Language, contextualism and naturalism.- 15. Naturalizing Picardi; Diego Marconi.- 16. Practical knowledge and linguistic competence; Annalisa Coliva.- 17. A Plague on All Your Houses: Some Reflections on the Variable Behaviour of “Knows”; Crispin Wright.- 18. Truth relativism and Evans' challenge; Sebastiano Moruzzi.- 19. Knowing the Facts: a Contrastivist Account of the Referential Opacity of Knowledge Attributions; Giorgio Volpe.- Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG LOGIC: Lecture Notes for Philosophy, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Book SynopsisThis textbook is a logic manual which includes an elementary course and an advanced course. It covers more than most introductory logic textbooks, while maintaining a comfortable pace that students can follow. The technical exposition is clear, precise and follows a paced increase in complexity, allowing the reader to get comfortable with previous definitions and procedures before facing more difficult material. The book also presents an interesting overall balance between formal and philosophical discussion, making it suitable for both philosophy and more formal/science oriented students. This textbook is of great use to undergraduate philosophy students, graduate philosophy students, logic teachers, undergraduates and graduates in mathematics, computer science or related fields in which logic is required. Table of Contents1 Basic notion.- 2 Validity.- 3 Formality.- 4 The symbols of propositional logic.- 5 The language L.- 6 Logical consequence in L.- 7 The system Sn.- 8 Derivability in Sn.- 9 The system Sa.- 10 Consistency, soundness, completeness.- 11 Quantification.- 12 The symbols of predicate logic.
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Springer Josef Schächter Philosophical Writings and Documents in the Context of the Vienna Circle
Book SynopsisLehre und Irrlehre.- Über das Verstehen.- Moritz Schlick, His Character.- Comments on the Theory of Ethics (in: The Superhuman in the Human).- Philosophers and Their Positions (Part on Ludwig.- Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, in: Judaism and Education in Our Time).- Differentiation and.- Integration (in: Reflections on Dilemmas in Our Time).- The Path of the Vienna Circle (in: Studies in Contemporary Thought).- Strata and Systems in Language (in: On the Way to Faith).- On Physicalism.- Vorwort zu Wittgenstein Engelmann. Briefe, Begegnungen, Erinnerungen.- Transcript of an Interview (in German) with Schächter conducted by Rosenkranz.- Letter (in German) from Rosenkranz to Stadler.- Josef Schächter The Vienna Circle and the Viennese Intellectual World. A memoir by his grandson Dr. Asher Schechter.- List of Publications Written in Israel.
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Palgrave Macmillan Humors Privileged Access to Truth Meaning and Goodness
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Chapter 1. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Deep Truth.- Chapter 2. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Goodness, Meaningfulness, and Mutually Exclusive Truths.-Chapter 3. Overlaps and Illuminating Problems with Alternative Accounts of Humor.- Chapter 4.Further Features of Humor's Access to Deep Truth: Humor's Devices for Fixing and Sustaining our Attention on Sense as Such.- Chapter 5.- Henry Fielding I: Amiable Humor.- Chapter 6. Henry Fielding II: Amiable Humor, Ironic Distance, and the Charitable Embrace of Conflicting Truths and Values.- Chapter 7.- The More Fine-Grained Structure of Humor's Self-Canceling Distance from Sense: How Bringing Out Sense's Unqualified Truth Itself Makes Room for Sense That It Wholly Excludes.- Chapter 8 Jane Austen: The Consummate Ironist Chapter 9. Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Caricature, and the Meaning and Meaningfulness of Reality Itself.- Chapter 10.- Oscar Wilde: The Perversity of Paradox and the Sense of Sense Itself.- Chapter 11.- George Bernard Shaw: ThePertinence of Paradox and the Call in Sense Itself for Charitable Compassion.- Chapter 12. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:The Impertinence of Paradox and the Meaningfulness of Reality Itself.- Chapter 13.- Long or Narrative Jokes.- Chapter 14. Humor and Religious Insight: Humor as a Celebratory Appreciation of Life and the World. Chapter 15. Humor and the Insights of Particular Religious Traditions.- Conclusion.
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Springer Reflexive Emotions
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Nussbaum in Review.- Shades of Shame.- Appreciating the Comical.- The Humble Self.- SecondOrder Emotions.-All Together Now.- Bibliography.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Freges Views on Truth
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nonconformist Perspectives on Animals and Language
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De Gruyter Hans-Georg Gadamer: Wahrheit und Methode
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De Gruyter The Expression of Possession
Book SynopsisHuman thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have developed many devices to express these categories. Temporality, for example, is reflected in the lexical meaning of verbs, in grammatical marking of tense and aspect, in time adverbials, in special particles, and in the application of discourse principles. Many of these devices have been the subject of intensive research across languages; but as a rule, this research focuses on particular aspects, it does not look at the expression of such a category as a whole, which is precisely the aim of the present series. The short volumes bring together what is known about the expression of a particular category in human language.
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De Gruyter Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement
Book SynopsisThe theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the "founding mother" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings - for example, those on existential graphs - are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Bréal, André Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics, linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume, containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the whole course of her research through to developments with the Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of essays by first-generation significians contributing to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection, testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even independently from her. This volume contributes to the reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its thematization of the question of values and the connection with signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and nonverbal behavior, language and communication.
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De Gruyter Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie
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De Gruyter Begriff, Bewusstsein und Bedeutung
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Springer VS Wort das wir sind
Book SynopsisLaut und Bedeutung.- Der Wortleib Ausdruck oder Zeichen?.- Aristoteles und die logisch-metaphysische Sprachauslegung.- Logos und Alogon in metaphysischer Sprachauslegung.- Die metaphorische Natur der Sprache.- Sagbares und Unsagbares.- Eröffnung von Anwesen im lautenden Wort.- Logos-Stiftung und Inkarnation.- .- Das einzelne Wort als inkarnierte Gestalt.
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Walking Tree Publishers Tolkien and Philosophy
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Brill Text Comparison and Digital Creativity: The Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship
Book SynopsisIn fourteen thoughtful essays this book reports and reflects on the many changes that a digital workflow brings to the world of original texts and textual scholarship, and the effect on scholarly communication practices. The spread of digital technology across philology, linguistics and literary studies suggests that text scholarship is taking on a more laboratory-like image. The ability to sort, quantify, reproduce and report text through computation would seem to facilitate the exploration of text as another type of quantitative scientific data. However, developing this potential also highlights text analysis and text interpretation as two increasingly separated sub-tasks in the study of texts. The implied dual nature of interpretation as the traditional, valued mode of scholarly text comparison, combined with an increasingly widespread reliance on digital text analysis as scientific mode of inquiry raises the question as to whether the reflexive concepts that are central to interpretation – individualism, subjectivity – are affected by the anonymised, normative assumptions implied by formal categorisations of text as digital data.Trade Review"Text Comparison and Digital Creativity is an imaginative book that creatively uses the toolbox of philology, philosophy, linguistics, media and social studies, and ethnography to make us think about our own laboratory of e-philologists as an emblematic instance of social shaping of technologies, as a lens through which bigger phenomena can be investigated, old practices re-invented, and new knowledge created." Arianna Ciula, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 27/1 (2012)
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Brill Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver
Book SynopsisWilliam Diver of Columbia University (1921-1995) critiqued the very roots of traditional and contemporary linguistics and founded a school of thought that aims for radical aposteriorism in accounting for the distribution of linguistic forms in authentic text. Grammatical and phonological analyses of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin, and Modern English reveal language to be an instrument whose structure is shaped by its communicative function and by the peculiarly human characteristics of its users. Diver's foundational works, many never before published, appear here newly edited and annotated, with introductions by the editors. The volume presents for the first time to a wide audience the depth and originality of Diver's iconoclastic thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Enduring Legacy of William Diver Alan Huffman PART I: INTRODUCTION TO DIVER’S THOUGHT 1. Substance and Value in Linguistic Analysis William Diver 2. The Nature of Linguistic Meaning William Diver 3. The Elements of a Science of Language William Diver PART II: GREEK 4. The Dual William Diver 5. Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Linguistic Analysis and Linguistic Theory William Diver 6. The System of Relevance of the Homeric Verb William Diver 7. Spheres of Interaction: Linguistic Analysis and Literary Analysis William Diver PART III: LATIN 8. The Subjunctive Without Syntax William Diver 9. Latin Voice and Case William Diver and Joseph Davis 10. Avoidance of the Obvious: The Pronoun as a Minimax Solution William Diver 11. The Latin Demonstratives William Diver 12. Latin se William Diver PART IV: PHONOLOGY 13. Phonology as Human Behavior William Diver 14. The Phonology of the Extremes Or, What is a Problem? William Diver and Joseph Davis 15. The Phonological Motivation for Verner’s Law and Grimm’s Law William Diver and Alan Huffman PART V: LINGUISTIC THEORIES 16. Traditional Grammar and Its Legacy in Twentieth-Century Linguistics William Diver, Joseph Davis, and Wallis Reid 17. Theory William Diver Part VI: RECAPITULATION: THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS 18. The History of Linguistics in the West: How the Study of Language Went Wrong in the Western Tradition William Diver Bibliography of William Diver General Bibliography
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Brill Kazimierz Twardowski: A Grammar for Philosophy
Book SynopsisKazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy. Twardowski’s unique way of doing philosophy, his method, is of central importance for understanding his impact as a teacher. This method can be understood as a philosophical grammar, which is also how Leibniz conceived his universal language of thought. Analytic philosophy in the twentieth century can be characterized by its opposition to psychologism, on the one hand, and its opposition to metaphysics, on the other. This is changing now, as questions within the philosophy of mind and metaphysics are raised by analytic philosophers today. Maria van der Schaar shows in her book that we can improve our analytic methods by making use of Twardowski’s philosophical grammar. Twardowski’s positive attitude to psychology and metaphysics may also help us to develop an analytic metaphysics and to get a better understanding of the relation between psychology and philosophy.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Twardowski as A Pupil and A Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. Questions of Method. From Descriptive Psychology to Philosophical Grammar . 16 1. Descriptive Psychology . 16 2. A Philosophical Grammar . 24 3. The Grammatical Distinction Between Internal and External Object . 32 4. Modifying Terms . 35 3. Content and Object. From Psychology to Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1. The Distinction between Content and Object . 50 2. The Content of the Act . 55 3. The Object of the Act . 59 From Psychology to Metaphysics . 59 Husserl’s Reaction to Twardowski’s Account of Intentionality . 61 Metaphysics and Mereology . 68 General Objects . 74 4. Images and Concepts . 80 4. Judgement and Meaning. ON Actions and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1. The Historical Background of Twardowski’s Theory of Judgement . 84 2. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 91 3. A Development in Twardowski’s Early Account of Judgement . 97 4. Actions and Products . 103 5. Twardowski’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement . 113 5. Knowing and Prejudice. An Educational Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 1. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 117 2. Brentano and Bolzano on Knowledge . 119 3. Knowledge, Science and the Cognitive Act . 122 4. Prejudice and the Critical Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 6. Truth and Time. Twardowski’s Impact on his Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 1. The Correspondence Definition of Truth . 129 2. The Absoluteness of Truth and the Logical Principles . 135 3. Determinism and the Relativity of Truth to Time . 150 Truth and Time . 150 Jan Łukasiewicz . 152 Tadeusz Kotarbiński . 154 Leśniewski’s and Twardowski’s Reaction to Kotarbiński . 157 Conclusion . 160 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Name Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Brill Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature
Book SynopsisIn Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures 1.2 A Note on the Methodology 1.3 Why Natural Language? 1.4 Summary 2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind 2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning 2.2 Language as Conceptualization 2.3 Language as a Mental Tool 2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability 2.5 Summary 3 Possible Minds from Natural Language 3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures 3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds 3.3 Summary 4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds 4.1 Machines and Minds 4.2 Computation and Natural Language 4.3 Summary 5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive 5.1 Summary 6 Conclusion References Index
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Brill History of Logic and Semantics: Studies on the Aristotelian and Terminist Traditions
Book SynopsisThis volume pays homage to the historian of logic Angel d’Ors (1951-2012), by bringing together a set of studies that together illuminate the complex historical development of logic and semantics. Two main traditions, Aristotelian and terminist, are showcased to demonstrate the changes and confrontations that constitute this history, and a number of different authors and texts, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval terminism, are discussed. Special topics dealt with include the medieval reception of ancient logic; technical tools for the medieval analysis of language; the medieval theory of consequence; the medieval practice of disputation and sophisms; and the post-medieval refinement of the terminist tools. Contributors are E.J. Ashworth, Allan Bäck, María Cerezo, Sten Ebbesen, José Miguel Gambra, C.H. Kneepkens, Kalvin Normore, Angel d’Ors, Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe, Stephen Read, Joke Spruyt, Luisa Valente, and Mikko Yrjönsuuri. These articles were also published in Vivarium, Volume 53, Nos. 2-4 (2015).
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Brill How to Make Our Signs Clear: C. S. Peirce and Semiotics
Book SynopsisHow to Make Our Signs Clear is the result of an international cooperation between European and Brazilian Peircean scholars (I. A. Ibri, E. Višňovský, C. Paolucci and others) and strives to dispel simplifications of Peirce´s semiotic as well as to collect various insights into it and into its consequences for philosophy, especially philosophy of language, pragmatism and epistemology. The central theme of this book is the notion of the sign as a specific triadic relational unit, treated from various perspectives and applied to various fields of philosophy: semeiotic knowledge grows up from the discussions, common interests and possible conflicts between the readers of Peirce´s works. This book does not offer a general overview of Peirce´s theory of signs, but rather various analyses of consequences of some capacities of his semiotic.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner 2 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and Semiotics Emil Višňovský 3 Habits, Purposes and Pragmatism Henrik Rydenfelt 4 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of Interpretation Claudio Paolucci 5 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy Ivo Assad Ibri 6 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the Rhetoric of Being Martin Švantner 7 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing, Although Not for the Right Reasons Emanuele Fadda 8 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding, or Creative Innovation? Vít Gvoždiak 9 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context Michaela Fišerová 10 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean Semiotics Martin Charvát and Michal Karľa 11 Charles Peirce and the Theory of Disembodiment Stephanie Schneider Index
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