Force Content And The Unity Of The Proposition

Author : Gabriele M. Mras,Michael Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
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Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000517330

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Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition by Gabriele M. Mras,Michael Schmitz Pdf

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem. The force-content dichotomy has shaped the philosophy of language and mind since the time of Frege and Russell. Isn’t it obvious that, for example, the clauses of a conditional are not asserted and must therefore be propositions and propositions the forceless contents of forceful acts? But, others have recently asked in response, how can a proposition be a truth value bearer if it is not unified through the forceful act of a subject that takes a position regarding how things are? Can we not instead think of propositions as being inherently forceful, but of force as being cancelled in certain contexts? And what do assertoric, but also directive and interrogative force indicators mean? Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition will be of interest to researchers working in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and linguistics.

Author : Gabriele M. Mras,Michael Schmitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000517323

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Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition by Gabriele M. Mras,Michael Schmitz Pdf

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem. The force-content dichotomy has shaped the philosophy of language and mind since the time of Frege and Russell. Isn’t it obvious that, for example, the clauses of a conditional are not asserted and must therefore be propositions and propositions the forceless contents of forceful acts? But, others have recently asked in response, how can a proposition be a truth value bearer if it is not unified through the forceful act of a subject that takes a position regarding how things are? Can we not instead think of propositions as being inherently forceful, but of force as being cancelled in certain contexts? And what do assertoric, but also directive and interrogative force indicators mean? Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition will be of interest to researchers working in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and linguistics.

Author : Peter Hanks,Peter W. Hanks
Publisher : Context & Content
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199684892

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Propositional Content by Peter Hanks,Peter W. Hanks Pdf

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content, according to which the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. He explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

Author : Emar Maier,Andreas Stokke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
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Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198846376

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The Language of Fiction by Emar Maier,Andreas Stokke Pdf

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Fiction has long been a topic of interest in philosophy, but recent years have also seen a surge in work on fictional discourse at the intersection between linguistics and philosophy of language. In particular, there has been a growing interest in examining long-standing issues concerning fiction from a perspective that is informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory. Following a detailed introduction by the editors, The Language of Fiction contains 14 chapters by leading scholars in linguistics and philosophy, organized into three parts. Part I, 'Truth, Reference, and Imagination', offers new, interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the central themes from the philosophy of fiction: What is fictional truth? How do fictional names refer? What kind of speech act is involved in telling a fictional story? What is the relation between fiction and imagination? Part II, 'Storytelling', deals with themes originating from the study of narrative: How do we infer a coherent story from a sequence of event descriptions? And how do we interpret the words of impersonal or unreliable narrators? Part III, 'Perspective Shift', focuses on an alleged key characteristic of fictional narratives, namely how we get access to the fictional characters' inner lives, through a variety of literary techniques for representing what they say, think, or see. The volume will be of interest to scholars from graduate level upwards in the fields of discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psychology, cognitive science, and literary studies.

Author : Irad Kimhi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674985285

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Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi Pdf

Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought—those that explicate how we in fact think—must be distinguished from logical laws of thought—those that formulate and impose rational requirements on thinking. Logic does not describe how we actually think, but only how we should. Yet by thus sundering the logical from the psychological, Frege was unable to explain certain fundamental logical truths, most notably the psychological version of the law of non-contradiction—that one cannot think a thought and its negation simultaneously. Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being marks a radical break with Frege’s legacy in analytic philosophy, exposing the flaws of his approach and outlining a novel conception of judgment as a two-way capacity. In closing the gap that Frege opened, Kimhi shows that the two principles of non-contradiction—the ontological principle and the psychological principle—are in fact aspects of the very same capacity, differently manifested in thinking and being. As his argument progresses, Kimhi draws on the insights of historical figures such as Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein to develop highly original accounts of topics that are of central importance to logic and philosophy more generally. Self-consciousness, language, and logic are revealed to be but different sides of the same reality. Ultimately, Kimhi’s work elucidates the essential sameness of thinking and being that has exercised Western philosophy since its inception.

Author : Peter William Hanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language and logic
ISBN : UCAL:C3490086

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The Unity of the Proposition by Peter William Hanks Pdf

Author : Mohua Banerjee,A. V. Sreejith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
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Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031266898

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Logic and Its Applications by Mohua Banerjee,A. V. Sreejith Pdf

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2023, which was held in Indore, India, in March 2023. Besides 6 invited papers presented in this volume, there are 9 contributed full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The volume covers a wide range of topics. These topics are related to modal and temporal logics, intuitionistic connexive and imperative logics, systems for reasoning with vagueness and rough concepts, topological quasi-Boolean logic and quasi-Boolean based rough set models, and first-order definability of path functions of graphs.

Author : Laura Caponetto,Paolo Labinaz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031225284

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Sbisà on Speech as Action by Laura Caponetto,Paolo Labinaz Pdf

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisà’s distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts. By gathering original essays from a world-class lineup of philosophers of language, linguists, social epistemologists, action theorists, and communication scholars, the collection provides the first comprehensive critical treatment of Sbisa’s outstanding contribution to speech act theory.

Author : Peter Hanks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191507809

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Propositional Content by Peter Hanks Pdf

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

Author : Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674335905

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The Logical Alien by Sofia Miguens Pdf

Is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Kant to Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question. This volume brings together nine distinguished thinkers on the subject, including James Conant, author of the seminal paper “The Search for Logically Alien Thought.”

Author : Uriah Kriegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192509093

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Brentano's Philosophical System by Uriah Kriegel Pdf

Uriah Kriegel presents a rich exploration of the philosophy of the great nineteenth-century thinker Franz Brentano. He locates Brentano at the crossroads where the Anglo-American and continental European philosophical traditions diverged. At the centre of this account of Brentano's philosophy is the connection between mind and reality. Kriegel aims to develop Brentano's central ideas where they are overly programmatic or do not take into account philosophical developments that have taken place since Brentano's death a century ago; and to offer a partial defense of Brentano's system as quite plausible and in any case extraordinarily creative and thought-provoking. Brentano's system grounds a complete metaphysics and value theory in a well-developed philosophy of mind, and accordingly the book is divided into three parts, devoted to Brentano's philosophy of mind, his metaphysics, and his moral philosophy. The book's fundamental ambition is to show how Brentano combines the clarity and precision of the analytic philosopher with the sweeping vision of the continental philosopher. Brentano pays careful attention to important distinctions, conscientiously defines key notions, presents precise arguments for his claims, judiciously considers potential objections, and in general proceeds very methodically - yet he does so not as an end in itself, but as a means only. His end is the crafting of a grand philosophical system in the classical sense, attempting to produce nothing less than a unified theory of the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Author : Alex Grzankowski,Michelle Montague
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191046537

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Non-Propositional Intentionality by Alex Grzankowski,Michelle Montague Pdf

The mind is directed upon the world. There are worldly things that we have beliefs about and things in the world we desire to have happen. We find some things fearsome and others likable. The puzzle of intentionality — how it is that our minds make contact with the world — is one of the oldest and most vexed issues facing philosophers. Many contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists have been attracted to the idea that our minds represent the world. This book explores an important assumption about representation, namely, that when we represent things in the world, we represent them as having properties, and in this way our representations have "propositional" structure. The contributors examine what the commitment to propositionalism amounts to; illuminate why one might find the thesis attractive (or unattractive); and consider ways in which one might depart from propositionalism. The hope is that this will lead towards a more complete understanding of how the mind and world are connected.

Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191553622

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The Unity of the Proposition by Richard Gaskin Pdf

Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express—what marks them off from mere lists of words and mere aggregates of word-meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, his account of the unity of the proposition has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality. He argues that the unity of the proposition is constituted by a certain infinitistic structure known in the tradition as 'Bradley's regress'. Usually, Bradley's regress has been regarded as vicious, but Gaskin argues that it is the metaphysical ground of the propositional unity, and gives us an important insight into the fundamental make-up of the world.

Author : Chris Tillman,Adam Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351982276

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The Routledge Handbook of Propositions by Chris Tillman,Adam Murray Pdf

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions, and our capacity to engage with them in thought and in communication. The chapters are clearly organized into the following three sections: I. Foundational Issues in the Theory of Propositions II. Historical Theories of Propositions III. Contemporary Theories of Propositions Essential reading for philosophers of language and mind, and for those working in neighboring areas, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions is suitable for upper-level undergraduate study, as well as graduate and professional research.

Author : Chantal Jaquet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474433204

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Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza by Chantal Jaquet Pdf

Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.