Conventionalism

Author : Yemima Ben-Menahem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320413

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Conventionalism by Yemima Ben-Menahem Pdf

The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This book provides a comprehensive study of Conventionalism. Drawing a distinction between two conventionalist theses, the under-determination of science by empirical fact, and the linguistic account of necessity, Yemima Ben-Menahem traces the evolution of both ideas to their origins in Poincaré's geometric conventionalism. She argues that the radical extrapolations of Poincaré's ideas by later thinkers, including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Carnap, eventually led to the decline of conventionalism. This book provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of the major themes of contemporary philosophy emerge in this book as arising from engagement with the challenge of conventionalism.

Author : Edmund Runggaldier
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9062035663

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Carnap's Early Conventionalism by Edmund Runggaldier Pdf

Revision of the author's thesis--Oxford University, 1977. Bibliography: p.[142]-144.

Author : Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña,Josep M. Vilajosana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030035716

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Legal Conventionalism by Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña,Josep M. Vilajosana Pdf

The concept of convention has been used in different fields and from different perspectives to account for important social phenomena, and the legal sphere is no exception. Rather, reflection on whether the legal phenomenon is based on a convention and, if so, what kind of convention is involved, has become a recurring issue in contemporary legal theory. In this book, some of the foremost specialists in the field make significant contributions to this debate. In the first part, the concept of convention is analysed. The second part reflects on whether the rule of recognition postulated by Hart can be understood as a convention and discusses its potential and limitations in order to explain the institutional and normative character of law. Lastly, the third part critically examines the relations between conventionalism and legal interpretation. Given the content and quality of the contributions, the book is of interest to those wanting to understand the current state of the art in legal conventionalism as well as those wanting to deepen their knowledge about these questions.

Author : Carlo Borromeo Giannoni
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111349497

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Conventionalism in logic by Carlo Borromeo Giannoni Pdf

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid,Gerhard Thonhauser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319568652

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From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity by Hans Bernhard Schmid,Gerhard Thonhauser Pdf

This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger’s account of the anyone is ambiguous. Some see it as a good description of human sociality, others think of it as an important critique of modern mass society. This volume seeks to understand this ambiguity as reflecting the tension between the constitutive function of conventions for human action and the critical aspects of conformism. It argues that Heidegger’s anyone should neither be reduced to its pejorative nor its constitutive dimension. Rather, the concept could show how power and norms function. This volume would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and the social sciences who wish to investigate the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger.

Author : Jared Warren
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780190086152

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Shadows of Syntax by Jared Warren Pdf

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth? This volume revitalizes conventionalism as an answer to this question. Conventionalism takes logical and mathematical truth to have their source in linguistic conventions. This was an extremely popular view in the early 20th century, but it was never worked out in detail and is now almost universally rejected in mainstream philosophical circles. In Shadows of Syntax, Jared Warren offers the first book-length treatment and defense of a combined conventionalist theory of logic and mathematics. He argues that our conventions, in the form of syntactic rules of language use, are perfectly suited to explain the truth, necessity, and a priority of logical and mathematical claims. In Part I, Warren explains exactly what conventionalism amounts to and what linguistic conventions are. Part II develops an unrestricted inferentialist theory of the meanings of logical constants that leads to logical conventionalism. This conventionalist theory is elaborated in discussions of logical pluralism, the epistemology of logic, and of the influential objections that led to the historical demise of conventionalism. Part III aims to extend conventionalism from logic to mathematics. Unlike logic, mathematics involves both ontological commitments and a rich notion of truth that cannot be generated by any algorithmic process. To address these issues Warren develops conventionalist-friendly but independently plausible theories of both metaontology and mathematical truth. Finally, Part IV steps back to address big picture worries and meta-worries about conventionalism. This book develops and defends a unified theory of logic and mathematics according to which logical and mathematical truths are reflections of our linguistic rules, mere shadows of syntax.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004457393

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The Heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz by Anonim Pdf

This book presents Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's philosophy. Ajdukiewicz was one of the most distinguished and important philosophers of the contemporary Poland. He produced important ideas in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and ontology. He influenced Polish analytic philosophy very much. The collection gives a general account of Ajdukiewicz philosophy and it is the only full presentation of his ideas available in Western languages. The volume is of interest for everybody working in analytic philosophy.

Author : Stefano Bertea,George Pavlakos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847318237

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New Essays on the Normativity of Law by Stefano Bertea,George Pavlakos Pdf

An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as a central feature of law lying at the heart of any comprehensive legal-theoretical project. The essays collected in this book are meant to further our understanding of the normativity of law. More specifically, the book stages a thorough discussion of legal normativity as approached from three strands of legal thought that are particularly influential and which play a key role in shaping debates on the normative dimension of law: the theory of planning agency, legal conventionalism and the constitutivist approach. While the essays presented here do not aspire to give an exhaustive picture of these debates - an aspiration that would be, by its very nature, unrealistic - they do provide the reader with some authoritative statements of some widely discussed families of views of legal normativity. In pursuing this objective, these essays also encourage a dialogue between different traditions of study of legal normativity, stimulating those who would not otherwise look outside their tradition of thought to engage with new ideas and, ultimately, to arrive at a more comprehensive account of the normativity of law.

Author : Scott J. Shapiro,Scott Shapiro
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674055667

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Legality by Scott J. Shapiro,Scott Shapiro Pdf

Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical questions about the law. In the twentieth century, there have been two major approaches to the nature of law. The first and most prominent is legal positivism, which draws a sharp distinction between law as it is and law as it might be or ought to be. The second are theories that view law as embedded in a moral framework. Scott Shapiro is a positivist, but one who tries to bridge the differences between the two approaches. In Legality, he shows how law can be thought of as a set of plans to achieve complex human goals. His new "planning" theory of law is a way to solve the "possibility problem", which is the problem of how law can be authoritative without referring to higher laws.

Author : Svetozar Y. Minkov
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438463131

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Leo Strauss on Science by Svetozar Y. Minkov Pdf

The first study of Strauss’s confrontation with modern science and its methods. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, Leo Strauss on Science brings to light the thoughts of Leo Strauss on the problem of science. Introducing us to Strauss’s reflections on the meaning and perplexities of the scientific adventure, Svetozar Y. Minkov explores questions such as: Is there a human wisdom independent of science? What is the relation between poetry and mathematics, or between self-knowledge and theoretical physics? And how necessary is it for the human species to exist immutably in order for the classical analysis of human life to be correct? In pursuing these questions, Minkov aims to change the conversation about Strauss, one of the great thinkers of the past century. Svetozar Y. Minkov is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University and the author of Francis Bacon’s “Inquiry Touching Human Nature”: Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man’s Estate.

Author : Edward Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139510653

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The Themes of Quine's Philosophy by Edward Becker Pdf

Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalism and of the linguistic doctrine of logical and mathematical truth, his rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation and his thesis of the inscrutability of reference. In this book Edward Becker sets out to interpret and explain these doctrines. He offers detailed analyses of the relevant texts, discusses Quine's views on meaning, reference and knowledge, and shows how Quine's views developed over the years. He also proposes a new version of the linguistic doctrine of logical truth, and a new way of rehabilitating analyticity. His rich exploration of Quine's thought will interest all those seeking to understand and evaluate the work of one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Anna Brożek,Jacek Jadacki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004312678

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Knowledge, Language and Silence by Anna Brożek,Jacek Jadacki Pdf

Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. The present volume includes twenty eight translations of her representative papers.

Author : California Teachers Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007937944

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Proceedings ... and Report of Council of Education ... by California Teachers Association Pdf

List of members in each volume.

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199697960

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The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics by Yan Huang Pdf

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Lawrence Boland,Tom Warlow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134498093

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Foundations of Economic Method by Lawrence Boland,Tom Warlow Pdf

This updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much appreciated by thinkers within economics. Boland is back.