Ontology After Carnap

Author : Stephan Blatti,Sandra Lapointe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
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Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191076732

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Ontology after Carnap by Stephan Blatti,Sandra Lapointe Pdf

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind. Nowhere is this more evident than in metaphysics, whose practitioners and historians are actively reflecting on the nature of ontological questions, the status of their answers, and the relevance of contributions both from other areas within philosophy (e.g., philosophical logic, semantics) and beyond (notably, the natural sciences). Such reflections are hardly new: the debate between Willard van Orman Quine and Rudolf Carnap about how to understand and resolve ontological questions is widely seen as a turning point in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. And indeed, this volume is occasioned by the fact that the deflationary approach to metaphysics advocated by Carnap in that debate is once again attracting considerable interest and support. Containing eleven original essays by many of today's leading voices in metametaphysics, Ontology After Carnap aims both to deepen our understanding of Carnap's contributions to metaontology and to explore how this legacy might be mined for insights into the contemporary debate. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students working in metaphysics, semantics, philosophical logic, metaphilosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : Bryan G. Norton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110802351

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Linguistic Frameworks and Ontology by Bryan G. Norton Pdf

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Author : Stephan Blatti,Sandra Lapointe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191638046

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Ontology after Carnap by Stephan Blatti,Sandra Lapointe Pdf

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind. Nowhere is this more evident than in metaphysics, whose practitioners and historians are actively reflecting on the nature of ontological questions, the status of their answers, and the relevance of contributions both from other areas within philosophy (e.g., philosophical logic, semantics) and beyond (notably, the natural sciences). Such reflections are hardly new: the debate between Willard van Orman Quine and Rudolf Carnap about how to understand and resolve ontological questions is widely seen as a turning point in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. And indeed, this volume is occasioned by the fact that the deflationary approach to metaphysics advocated by Carnap in that debate is once again attracting considerable interest and support. Containing eleven original essays by many of today's leading voices in metametaphysics, Ontology After Carnap aims both to deepen our understanding of Carnap's contributions to metaontology and to explore how this legacy might be mined for insights into the contemporary debate. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students working in metaphysics, semantics, philosophical logic, metaphilosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : Amie Lynn Thomasson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199385119

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Ontology Made Easy by Amie Lynn Thomasson Pdf

This volume aims to develop the easy approach to ontology, showing how it leads to both a first-order simple realism about the disputed entities and a form of metaontological deflationism that takes ontological disputes themselves to be misguided, since existence questions may be answered by straightforward conceptual and/or empirical work. It also aims to defend the easy approach against a range of objections and to show it to be a viable and attractive alternative to hard ontology.

Author : Francesco Berto,Matteo Plebani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472573308

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Ontology and Metaontology by Francesco Berto,Matteo Plebani Pdf

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focusing on the most recent trends in the discipline. Divided into parts, the first half characterizes metaontology: the discourse on the methodology of ontological inquiry, covering the main concepts, tools, and methods of the discipline, exploring the notions of being and existence, ontological commitment, paraphrase strategies, fictionalist strategies, and other metaontological questions. The second half considers a series of case studies, introducing and familiarizing the reader with concrete examples of the latest research in the field. The basic sub-fields of ontology are covered here via an accessible and captivating exposition: events, properties, universals, abstract objects, possible worlds, material beings, mereology, fictional objects. The guide's modular structure allows for a flexible approach to the subject, making it suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates looking to better understand and apply the exciting developments and debates taking place in ontology today.

Author : Herbert Hochberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004458376

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The Positivist and the Ontologist by Herbert Hochberg Pdf

The book contains the first systematic study of the ontology and metaphysics of Gustav Bergmann, tracing their development from early (1940s) criticisms of Carnap’s semantical theories in Introduction to Semantics, to their culmination in his 1992 New Foundations of Ontology. This involves a detailed study of the implicit metaphysical doctrines in Carnap’s important, but long neglected, 1942 book and their connection to his influential views on reference, truth and modality, (including, contrary to current opinion, Carnap’s initiating the development of predicate modal logic) that culminated in Meaning and Necessity. In dealing with various fundamental issues in ontology and metaphysics, the book discusses relevant views of major philosophers, such as Russell, Moore, Bradley, Wittgenstein, Meinong, Brentano, Husserl, Broad, McTaggart, and Quine, and of contemporary and recent figures, including D. M. Armstrong, D. Lewis, S. Kripke, J. Searle, W. Sellars, D. Davidson, J. J. C. Smart, and H. Feigl. Building on the critical studies of Bergmann, Carnap and such other philosophers, the author argues for a form of Logical Realism derived from important, but long misunderstood and ignored, aspects of Russell’s theories of descriptions, reference and truth.

Author : Bruno Leclercq,Sebastien Richard,Denis Seron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501501371

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Objects and Pseudo-Objects by Bruno Leclercq,Sebastien Richard,Denis Seron Pdf

The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account. One of the major issues confronting the 20th century philosophers was to identify which of these entities should be rationally accepted as part of the furniture of the world and which should not, and to provide a general account of how the latter are nevertheless subject to true predication. The 13 original essays collected in this volume explore some of the main approaches to this issue in the 20th century, including Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, Carnap, Frege, Twardowski, Kotarbinski, Nicolai Hartmann, and realist phenomenologists.

Author : Sander Verhaegh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190913151

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Working from Within by Sander Verhaegh Pdf

During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relation between science and philosophy. A great number of analytic philosophers have adopted what is commonly called a "naturalistic" approach, arguing that their inquiries ought to be in some sense continuous with science. Where early analytic philosophers often relied on a sharp distinction between science and philosophy--the former an empirical discipline concerned with fact, the latter an a priori discipline concerned with meaning--philosophers today largely follow Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) in his seminal rejection of this distinction. Sander Verhaegh here offers a comprehensive study of Quine's groundbreaking naturalism. Building on Quine's published corpus as well as a wealth of unpublished letters, notes, lectures, papers, proposals, and annotations from the Quine archives, Verhaegh aims to reconstruct both the nature and the development of his naturalism. As such, Working from Within aims to contribute to the rapidly developing historiography of analytic philosophy, and to provide a better, historically informed, understanding of what is philosophically at stake in the contemporary naturalistic turn. Transcriptions of five unpublished papers, letters, and notes are included in the appendix.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:78050301

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Linguistic Frameworks and Ontology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc Aubrey Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015043222762

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In the Philosophical Vein by Marc Aubrey Kelly Pdf

Author : Gary Ebbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107178151

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Carnap, Quine, and Putnam on Methods of Inquiry by Gary Ebbs Pdf

This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

Author : David Chalmers,David Manley,Ryan Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199546046

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Metametaphysics by David Chalmers,David Manley,Ryan Wasserman Pdf

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Author : L. Decock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401735759

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Trading Ontology for Ideology by L. Decock Pdf

Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century. His work spans over seven decades, and covers many domains in philosophy. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic and set theory, philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics. Quine's first work in philosophy was in the field of logic. His major contributions are the two set-theoretic systems NF (1936) and ML (1940). 1 These systems were alternatives to the type theory of Principia Mathematica or Zermelo's set theory, and are still being studied by 2 mathematicians. An indirect contribution to the field of logic is his strong resistance to moda110gic. Quine's objectIons to the notions of necessity and analyticity have influenced the development of moda110gic? Quine has had an enormous influence on philosophy of mathematics. When Quine entered philosophy there was a discussion on the foundations of mathematics between the schools of intuitionism, formalism, and conventionalism. Quine soon took issue with Carnap's conventionalism in "Truth by convention,,4 (1936). Quine has never joined one of the other schools, but has added new elements that are the basic ones of the 5 contemporary schools of nominalism, platonism, and structuralism. Quine has long been in the shadow of Benacerraf and Putnam in this field. At the moment there seems to be a renewed interest in Quine's work, and most philosophers explicitly refer to Quine's work.

Author : Thomas Bonk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401701518

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Language, Truth and Knowledge by Thomas Bonk Pdf

This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this volume will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians.

Author : Alessandro Torza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319183626

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Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language by Alessandro Torza Pdf

This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathematics. It advances an argument for the uniqueness of quantifier meaning in terms of Evert Beth’s notion of implicit definition and clarifies the oldest explicit formulation of quantifier variance: the one proposed by Rudolf Carnap. The volume further examines what it means that a quantifier can have multiple meanings and addresses how existential vagueness can induce vagueness in our modal notions. Finally, the book explores the role played by quantifiers with respect to various kinds of semantic paradoxes, the logicality issue, ontological commitment, and the behavior of quantifiers in intensional contexts.