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Author : Richard M. Martin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873957229
Author : Alexander Carruth,Sophie Gibb,John Heil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192516138
This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as one of the world's leading philosophers, publishing eleven single-authored books and well over two hundred essays. His scholarship was strikingly broad, ranging from early modern philosophy to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His most important and sustained contributions were to philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and above all metaphysics. E. J. Lowe was committed to a systematic, realist, and scientifically informed neo-Aristotelean approach to philosophy. This volume presents a set of new essays by philosophers who share this commitment, addressing interrelated themes of his work. In particular, these papers focus upon three closely connected topics central not only to Lowe's work, but to contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind in general: ontology and categories of being; essence and modality, and the metaphysics of mental causation.
Author : Vesa Hirvonen,Toivo Holopainen,Miira Tuominen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409670
This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.
Author : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110271072
Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information. Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer. The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.
Author : Stephen Yablo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199266463
In these twelve essays Stephen Yablo presents a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind, including mental/physical dualism, the possibility of disembodied existence, conceivability as a guide to possibility, the nature of solipsistic content, and how the mind affects the course of physical events.
Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 1009447173
"Drawing on twenty years of research, this book provides a functionally and cognitively motivated analysis of the field of modality. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the semantics of modality, as well as in the implications of this domain for understanding the cognitive infrastructure for language and thought"--
Author : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 3110270196
Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. The contributions in this collection provide insight into modal techniques used in various languages from different areas of the world
Author : Allan Paivio
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317716891
This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan Paivio, a leading scholar in cognitive psychology, presents this masterwork as new findings in psychological research on memory, thought, language, and other core areas have flourished, as have pioneering developments in the cognitive neurosciences. Mind and Its Evolution provides a thorough exploration into how these adaptive nonverbal and verbal systems might have evolved, as well as a careful comparison of DCT with contrasting "single-code" cognitive theories. Divided into four parts, this text begins with a general, systematic theory of modern human cognition as the reference model for interpreting the cognitive abilities of evolutionary ancestors. The first half of the book discusses mind as it is; the second half addresses how it came to be that way. Each half is subdivided into two parts defined by thematic chapters. Mind and Its Evolution concludes with evidence-based suggestions about nourishing mental growth through applications of DCT in education, psychotherapy, and health. This volume will appeal to cognitive and evolutionary psychologists, as well as students in the areas of memory, language, cognition, and mind evolution specialists in psychology, philosophy, and other disciplines.
Author : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri,Mark McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351730044
Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Author : Andrea Borghini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472521941
A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality examines the eight main contemporary theories of possibility behind a central metaphysical topic. Covering modal skepticism, modal expressivism, modalism, modal realism, ersatzism, modal fictionalism, modal agnosticism, and the new modal actualism, this comprehensive introduction to modality places contemporary debates in an historical context. Beginning with a historical overview, Andrea Borghini discusses Parmenides and Zeno; looks at how central Medieval authors such as Aquinas, and Buridan prepared the ground for the Early Modern radical views of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume and discusses advancements in semantics in the later-half of the twentieth century a resulted in the rise of modal metaphysics, the branch characterizing the past few decades of philosophical reflection. Framing the debate according to three main perspectives - logical, epistemic, metaphysical- Borghini provides the basic concepts and terms required to discuss modality. With suggestions of further reading and end-of-chapter study questions, A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality is an up-to-date resource for students working in contemporary metaphysics seeking a better understanding of this crucial topic.
Author : Jeffrey W. Sherman,Bertram Gawronski,Yaacov Trope
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462514397
"This volume provides an authoritative synthesis of a dynamic, influential area of psychological research. Leading investigators address all aspects of dual-process theories: their core assumptions, conceptual foundations, and applications to a wide range of social phenomena. In 38 chapters, the volume addresses the pivotal role of automatic and controlled processes in attitudes and evaluation; social perception; thinking and reasoning; self-regulation; and the interplay of affect, cognition, and motivation. Current empirical and methodological developments are described. Critiques of the duality approach are explored and important questions for future research identified"--
Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009108638
An influential and important volume which changed understandings of the ways in which philosophy of mind is conceived and understood.
Author : Bob Hale,Aviv Hoffmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191572296
The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.
Author : Linda L Boling
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781504325837
Finally a book about stress that focuses on finding a stress relief practice that works for YOU! Start with part one - engaging, down-to-earth information, questionnaires and charts to involve you personally with the book. Included is an overview of what stress is and some of the reasons you have it. Then you will find specific information for each modality mind, body, and spirit and how stress can affect each area of your life. In part two, determine your astrological sign and complete a self-test to determine your major modality mind, body, or spirit. Using this information, you can then find some suggested practices to get you started. Part three contains over 60 different practices. Each practice includes How to do it as well as a suggested time frame. This book is a call to action - it is meant to be interactive, not just read and then put on the shelf. Start reducing your stress today!
Author : Anand Jayprakash Vaidya,Duško Prelević
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000840438
This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by linguistic competence alone. These issues are closely related to some of the central issues in philosophical methodology, notably: to what extent is the armchair methodology of philosophy a reliable guide for the formation of beliefs about what is possible and necessary. This question also relates to the nature of thought experiments that are extensively used in science and philosophy. Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, as well as those whose work is concerned with philosophical methodology more generally.