Meaning Mind And Knowledge

Author : Christopher S. Hill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
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Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191644108

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In this collection of essays, most of which are of recent vintage, and seven of which appear here for the first time, Christopher S. Hill addresses a large assortment of philosophical issues. Part I presents a deflationary theory of truth, argues that semantic properties like reference and correspondence with fact can also be characterized in deflationary terms, and offers an account of the value of these 'thin' properties, tracing it to their ability to track more substantial properties that are informational or epistemic in character. Part II defends the view that conscious experiences are type-identical with brain states. It addresses a large array of objections to this identity thesis, including objections based on the alleged multiple realizability of experiences, and objections based on Cartesian intuitions about the modeal separability of mind and matter. In the end, however, it maintains that theories of experience based on type-identity should give way to representationalist accounts. Part III presents a representationalist solution to the mind-body problem. It argues that all awareness, including awareness of qualia, is governed by a Kantian appearance/reality distinction—a distinction between the ways objects and properties are represented as being, and the ways they are in themselves. It also presents theories of pain and visual qualia that kick them out of the mind and assign them to locations in body and the external world. Part IV defends reliabilist theories of epistemic justification, deploys such theories in answering Cartesian skepticism, responds critically to Hawthorne's lottery problem and related proposals about the role of knowledge in conversation and practical reasoning, presents a new account of the sources of modeal knowledge, and proposes an account of logical and mathematical beliefs that represents them as immunune to empirical revision.

Author : John Henry McDowell,John McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674557778

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Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality by John Henry McDowell,John McDowell Pdf

This is the second volume of John McDowell's selected papers. These 19 essays collectively report on McDowell's involvement with questions about the interface between the philosophies of language and mind and with issues in general epistemology.

Author : Christopher S. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199665822

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Acting together requires collective intentions. The contributions to this volume seek to critically assess or to enrich theories of collective intentionality by exploring topics such as collective belief, mutual coordination, and the explanation of group behavior.

Author : John Henry McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674007131

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Mind, Value, and Reality by John Henry McDowell Pdf

This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.

Author : Annalisa Coliva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199278053

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Mind, Meaning, and Knowledge by Annalisa Coliva Pdf

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers. The distinguished contributors address a variety of issues, including truth, realism, anti-realism, relativism, and scepticism, and testify to Wright's seminal work on language, mind, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Author : Carl Ginet,Sydney Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039422915

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Knowledge and Mind by Carl Ginet,Sydney Shoemaker Pdf

Essays honoring Norman Malcolm. "Books and articles by Norman Malcolm": pages [259]-263. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Keith Gunderson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816657797

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Language, Mind, and Knowledge by Keith Gunderson Pdf

Language, Mind, and Knowledge was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is Volume VII of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, a series published in cooperation with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota and edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell. Professor Maxwell is the present director of the Center. Some of the papers in this volume were presented at or grew out of a conference on the philosophy of language which was held at the Center under the direction of Professor Gunderson. Others were written independently. The aim of the book, like that of the conference, is to assemble a wide variety of approaches to issues in the philosophy of language with emphasis on the ways in which the issues involved have bearing on other matters such as linguistic theory, cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology. There are twelve papers by eleven contributors: "Languages and Language" by David Lewis; "Logic and Language: An Examination of Recent Criticisms of Internationalism" by Jerrold J. Katz; "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" by Hilary Putnam; "Reference and Context" by Charles Chastain; "Language, Thought, and Communication" by Gilbert Harman; "Knowledge of Language" by Noam Chomsky; "Language, Rules, and Complex Behavior" by Michael D. Root; "A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts" by John R. Searle; "On What We Know" by Zeno Vendler; "Vendler on Knowledge and Belief" by Bruce Aune; "Reply to Professor Aune" by Zeno Vendler; "Brain Writing and Mind Reading" by D.C. Dennett.

Author : Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262621002

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Knowledge of Meaning by Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal Pdf

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist. Linguistic semantics cannot be studied as a stand-alone subject but only as part of cognitive psychology, the authors assert. It is the study of a particular human cognitive competence governing the meanings of words and phrases. Larson and Segal argue that speakers have unconscious knowledge of the semantic rules of their language, and they present concrete, empirically motivated proposals about a formal theory of this competence based on the work of Alfred Tarski and Donald Davidson. The theory is extended to a wide range of constructions occurring in natural language, including predicates, proper nouns, pronouns and demonstratives, quantifiers, definite descriptions, anaphoric expressions, clausal complements, and adverbs. Knowledge of Meaning gives equal weight to philosophical, empirical, and formal discussions. It addresses not only the empirical issues of linguistic semantics but also its fundamental conceptual questions, including the relation of truth to meaning and the methodology of semantic theorizing. Numerous exercises are included in the book.

Author : Robert Hoffman
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : UCAL:B3920579

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Language, Minds, and Knowledge by Robert Hoffman Pdf

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226500393

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Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason by Mark Johnson Pdf

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values. A brief account of Johnson’s own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the most important discoveries in the field over the past forty years, sets the stage. Subsequent chapters set out Johnson’s important role in embodied cognition theory, including his cofounding (with George Lakoff) of conceptual metaphor theory and, later, their theory of bodily structures and processes that underlie all meaning, conceptualization, and reasoning. A detailed account of how meaning arises from our physical engagement with our environments provides the basis for a nondualistic, nonreductive view of mind that he sees as most congruous with the latest cognitive science. A concluding section explores the implications of our embodiment for our understanding of knowledge, reason, and truth. The resulting book will be essential for all philosophers dealing with mind, thought, and language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OXFORD:N13402022

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Mind by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : HMH
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780547541471

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The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt Pdf

“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. This final achievement, presented here in a complete one-volume edition, may be seen as a legacy to our own and future generations.

Author : David Swift
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443809030

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The Epicurean Theory of Mind, Meaning and Knowledge by David Swift Pdf

Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus provided some of our most cherished assumptions about physics and ethics. He postulated an infinite universe made exclusively of atoms and void. He also treated slaves and women as equals and defined our standards of pleasure and luxury. Now David Swift turns to Epicurus for help with another significant mystery: the scientific explanation of mind. Using Epicurean ideas that our minds are in our chests and, perhaps even more radically, that meaning is understood in our sense organs he re-examines and reinterprets the works of philosophers like Descartes, Locke, Kant and Mill and scientists such as Pavlov, Freud, Skinner and Rogers. Seen in the light of the Epicurean concept, Renaissance philosophy and classic scientific psychology validate a surprisingly consistent and coherent scientific explanation of behaviour. The mechanisms of meaning, knowledge, learning and remembering are explained in terms of biological reflexes. The secrets of love, hate and loyalty are revealed as non-verbal knowledge only accessible as feelings. And success, failure, criminal and other behaviours are shown to be the results of learned experience not genetic predisposition. At last we have the possibility of a plausible biologically-based general psychological theory.

Author : António Marques,Nuno Venturinha
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110284249

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Knowledge, Language and Mind by António Marques,Nuno Venturinha Pdf

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is arguably one of the most influential books of the 20th century. It threw a new light on the workings of language and mind, contributing significantly to the understanding of human knowledge. Featuring essays by internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the development of Wittgenstein's ideas in the direction of the Investigations. It offers a comprehensive view of some of the most disputable issues in the study of Wittgenstein's masterpiece and reassesses its relevance within contemporary philosophical debate. Contributors: Alberto Arruda (New University of Lisbon), João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter (University of S. Paulo), P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford), Nathan Hauthaler (University of London), Emiliano La Licata (University of Palermo), Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University), Nikolay Milkov (University of Paderborn), Maria Filomena Molder (New University of Lisbon), Jesús Padilla Gálvez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo) and Rui Sampaio da Silva (University of the Azores).

Author : Clarence Irving Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486265641

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Mind and the World-order by Clarence Irving Lewis Pdf

Theory of "conceptual pragmatism" takes into account both modern philosophical thought and modern mathematics. Stimulating discussions of metaphysics, a priori, philosophic method, much more.