Lingua Universalis

Author : Johannes Plass
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060084152

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Lingua Universalis by Johannes Plass Pdf

This book follows up on the success of dgv's bestseller Lingua Grafica, which has established itself as a leading tool for guiding international designers in their everyday work. The expectations of fans of its predecessor will not be disappointed - Imperium Imaginum also features a structured portfolio of the latest logos and icons done by the Mutabor design studio. Imperium Imaginum explains the process behind logo creation from the perspective of the award-winning creative team. Mutabor breaks down the development of various logos into a series of steps. This visual presentation shows designers examples of how they can approach complex and abstract subjects in logo design. With Imperium Imaginum, another book has been created which will serve designers worldwide as both a source of inspiration and a practical reference work.

Author : D. E. Mungello
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824812190

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Curious Land by D. E. Mungello Pdf

How the Jesuit accomodation to internal events in China laid the foundation for modern study of China in the West. First published as Studia Leibnitiana, Supplementa 25 (1985) by Fritz Steiner Verlag. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401586016

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Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: by Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood would have been delighted by the contrast that constitutes the overall theme of the essays collected in this volume. Not only has this dichotomy ofviews been one ofthe mostcrucial watersheds in the entire twentieth-century philosophical thought. Not only has it remained largely implicit in the writings of the philosophers for whom it mattered most. It is a truly Collingwoodian presupposition also in that it is not apremise assumed by different thinkers in their argumentation. It is the presupposition of a question, an assumption to the effect that a certain general question can be raised and answered. Its role is not belied by the fact that several philosophers who answered it one way or the other seem to be largely unaware that the other answer also makes sense - if it does. This Collingwoodian question can be formulated in a first rough approximation by asking whether language - our actual working language, Tarski's "colloquiallanguage" - is universal in the sense of being inescapable. This formulation needs all sorts of explanations, however.

Author : Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Michael Stöltzner,Marcel Weber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400730304

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Probabilities, Laws, and Structures by Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Michael Stöltzner,Marcel Weber Pdf

This volume, the third in this Springer series, contains selected papers from the four workshops organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme "The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective" (PSE) in 2010: Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics The volume is accordingly divided in four sections, each of them containing papers coming from the workshop focussing on one of these themes. While the programme's core topic for the year 2010 was probability and statistics, the organizers of the workshops embraced the opportunity of building bridges to more or less closely connected issues in general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and philosophy of the special sciences. However, papers that analyze the concept of probability for various philosophical purposes are clearly a major theme in this volume, as it was in the previous volumes of the same series. This reflects the impressive productivity of probabilistic approaches in the philosophy of science, which form an important part of what has become known as formal epistemology - although, of course, there are non-probabilistic approaches in formal epistemology as well. It is probably fair to say that Europe has been particularly strong in this area of philosophy in recent years.​

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 0192880934

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After Babel by George Steiner Pdf

A study of the theory and processes of language translation since the eighteenth century.

Author : Herman Parret
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 3110058189

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History of Linguistic Thought and Contemporary Linguistics by Herman Parret Pdf

Author : Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415306027

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Gottlob Frege: Frege's philosophy in context by Michael Beaney,Erich H. Reck Pdf

This collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material which is made available to Anglophone scholars for the first time.

Author : Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443869775

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Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences by Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi Pdf

This ambitious work reclassifies and restructures the history of ideas and the philosophy of culture through a wide-ranging and novel use of the idea of the organon. It does so by radically revising standard interpretations and theories of all branches of philosophy, and by providing an intellectual and philosophical foundation for the new organon of the cultural sciences. Furthermore, the seeded idea that saw its growth in the form of this book is the unshakable conviction that the only way by which a new apparatus of philosophy, an organon, could be created is by harking back to the vast sources of imagination, inspiration and mimēsis. This entire study is based on the notion that metaphysics, insofar as it is concerned with the world in its entirety and with human being’s existence and thought, should provide the foundation for the organon of cultural sciences, based on symbolic forms. Given that the colossal amount of information and knowledge of philosophy, arts, humanities, logic, mathematics, social sciences and natural sciences cannot be comprised, analyzed and comprehended per se, it is the organon’s objective to extract the main principles, ideas, postulates, theorems and theories of the cultural sciences, and, subsequently, to shape and restructure them as symbolic forms. Since all these principles are grounded on Becoming—which is not a stable or fixed entity such as Being, substance or thing—the symbolic forms preserve and change, elevate and further the organon of the cultural sciences, via a critical-dialectical process.

Author : John Canfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134935734

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Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century by John Canfield Pdf

Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on the main problems of philosophy. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. All the essays present their large and complex topics in a clear and well organised way. At the end, the reader finds a helpful Chronology of the major political, scientific and philosophical events in the Twentieth Century and an extensive Glossary of technical terms.

Author : Jaap Maat
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400710368

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Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century by Jaap Maat Pdf

This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Leibniz's uncompleted scheme. It treats each of the projects as self contained undertakings, which deserve to be studied and judged in their own right. For this reason, the two artificial languages, as well as Leib niz's work in this area, are described in considerable detail. At the same time, the characteristics of these schemes are linked with their intellectual context, and their multiple interrelations are examined at some length. In this way, the book seeks to combine a systematical with a historical ap proach to the subject, in the hope that both approaches profit from the combination. When I first started the research on which this book is based, I intended to look only briefly into the seventeenth-century schemes, which I assumed represented a typical universalist approach to the study of lan guage, as opposed to a relativistic one. The authors of these schemes thought, or so the assumption was, that almost the only thing required for a truly universal language was the systematic labelling of the items of an apparently readily available, universal catalogue of everything that exists.

Author : Steve G. Lofts
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791493014

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Ernst Cassirer by Steve G. Lofts Pdf

This systematic introduction to Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms demonstrates how his approach transforms the project of modernity in accord with the limitations of the modern conception of rationality. At the same time, this book functions as an introduction to Cassirer's thought.

Author : Arran Gare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134866069

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The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization by Arran Gare Pdf

The global ecological crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever had to confront, and humanity is failing. The triumph of the neo-liberal agenda, together with a debauched ‘scientism’, has reduced nature and people to nothing but raw materials, instruments and consumers to be efficiently managed in a global market dominated by corporate managers, media moguls and technocrats. The arts and the humanities have been devalued, genuine science has been crippled, and the quest for autonomy and democracy undermined. The resultant trajectory towards global ecological destruction appears inexorable, and neither governments nor environmental movements have significantly altered this, or indeed, seem able to. The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization is a wide-ranging and scholarly analysis of this failure. This book reframes the dynamics of the debate beyond the discourses of economics, politics and techno-science. Reviving natural philosophy to align science with the humanities, it offers the categories required to reform our modes of existence and our institutions so that we augment, rather than undermine, the life of the ecosystems of which we are part. From this philosophical foundation, the author puts forth a manifesto for transforming our culture into one which could provide an effective global environmental movement and provide the foundations for a global ecological civilization.

Author : Arika Okrent
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812980899

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In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent Pdf

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

Author : Benedek Láng
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271090245

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The Rohonc Code by Benedek Láng Pdf

First discovered in a Hungarian library in 1838, the Rohonc Codex keeps privileged company with some of the most famous unsolved writing systems in the world, notably the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disk, and Linear A. Written entirely in cipher, this 400-year-old, 450-page-long, richly illustrated manuscript initially gained considerable attention but was later dismissed as an apparent forgery. No serious scholar would study it again until the turn of the twenty-first century. This engaging narrative follows historian Benedek Láng’s search to uncover the truth about this thoroughly mysterious book that has puzzled dozens of codebreakers. Láng surveys the fascinating theories associated with the Codex and discusses possible interpretations of the manuscript as a biblical commentary, an apocryphal gospel, or a secret book written for and by a sect. He provides an overview of the secret writing systems known in early modern times and an account of the numerous efforts to create an artificial language or to find a long-lost perfect tongue—endeavors that were especially popular at the time the Codex was made. Lastly, he tests several codebreaking methods in order to decipher the Codex, finally pointing to a possible solution to the enigma of its content and language system. Engagingly written, academically grounded, and thoroughly compelling, The Rohonc Code will appeal to historians, scholars, and lay readers interested in mysteries, codes, and ciphers.

Author : Arnold Koslow,Arthur Buchsbaum
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319153681

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The Road to Universal Logic by Arnold Koslow,Arthur Buchsbaum Pdf

This second volume of a collection of papers offers new perspectives and challenges in the study of logic. It is presented in honor of the fiftieth birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau. The papers touch upon a wide range of topics including paraconsistent logic, quantum logic, geometry of oppositions, categorical logic, computational logic, fundamental logic notions (identity, rule, quantification) and history of logic (Leibniz, Peirce, Hilbert). The volume gathers personal recollections about Jean-Yves Béziau and an autobiography, followed by 25 papers written by internationally distinguished logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists and philosophers, including Irving Anellis, Dov Gabbay, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Istvan Németi, Henri Prade. These essays will be of interest to all students and researchers interested in the nature and future of logic.