Essays In Philosophical Analysis

Author : Linda Brakel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199581474

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Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis by Linda Brakel Pdf

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.

Author : Everett W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317829607

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What is Value? by Everett W. Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Max Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Analysis (Philosophy).
ISBN : UOM:39015000357270

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Philosophical Analysis by Max Black Pdf

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822975762

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Essays in Philosophical Analysis by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

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.

Author : Dickinson S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401017923

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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare by Dickinson S. Miller Pdf

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.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521256844

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Exercises in Analysis by Ian Hacking Pdf

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.

Author : Pranab Kumar Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : A priori
ISBN : 0391024914

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Logic, Induction, and Ontology by Pranab Kumar Sen Pdf

Author : Peter Hylton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191515965

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Propositions, Functions, and Analysis by Peter Hylton Pdf

The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and articulating aspects of Russell's philosophical vision during his most influential and important period, the two decades following his break with Idealism in 1899. One theme of the collection concerns Russell's views about propositions and their analysis, and the relation of those ideas to his rejection of Idealism. Another theme is the development of Russell's logicism, culminating in Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and Hylton offers a revealing view of the conception of logic which underlies it. Here again there is an emphasis on Russell's argument against Idealism, on the idea that his logicism was a crucial part of that argument. A further focus of the volume is Russell's views about functions and propositional functions. This theme is part of a contrast that Hylton draws between Russell's general philosophical position and that of Frege; in particular, there is a close parallel with the quite different views that the two philosophers held about the nature of philosophical analysis. Hylton also sheds valuable light on the much-disputed idea of an operation, which Wittgenstein advances in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691176406

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Analytic Philosophy in America by Scott Soames Pdf

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.

Author : Max Black
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000034493

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Problems of Analysis by Max Black Pdf

Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos,Fred D. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400760042

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Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy by Georgios Anagnostopoulos,Fred D. Miller Jr. Pdf

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.

Author : Pranab Kumar Sen,Manidipa Sen,Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 8185636982

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Knowledge, Truth, and Realism by Pranab Kumar Sen,Manidipa Sen,Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty Pdf

Description: Knowledge, Truth and Realism is a collection of essays written by Pranab Kumar Sen over a period of ten years (from 1989 to 1998). The essays deal mainly with issues in Philosophy of Language and Theory of Knowledge from the standpoint of analytical philosophy. They bring forth Sen's realist philosophical position and his attempt to weave together specific questions concerning meaning, reference, truth, knowledge and objectivity in this realistic framework. By responding to and by making use of the ideas of Philosophers like, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W.V. Quine, Donald Davidson, Peter Strawson, H.P. Grice, Michael Dummett, John McDowell, Sen develops his distinctive theory of meaning and understanding along with his theory of knowledge/knowing. In doing so he also addresses the larger issue regarding the nature of philosophical analysis. The essays are a testimony to the painstaking and lifelong engagement of the Philosopher with some of the central and contemporary debates in analytical philosophy.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691136813

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Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 by Scott Soames Pdf

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.

Author : Seiji Ueda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UGA:32108004078708

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Essays in the Philosophical Analysis by Seiji Ueda Pdf

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015034901689

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Essays in the History of Philosophy by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

This is a collection of essays in the history of philosophy, ranging from the cosmic evolution in Anaximander, through Leibniz on creation, to the present state of American philosophy.