Philosophical Languages In The Seventeenth Century

Author : Jaap Maat
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
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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 : Robert E. Stillman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838753108

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The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-century England by Robert E. Stillman Pdf

That saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.

Author : Lia Formigari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027245311

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Language and Experience in 17th-century British Philosophy by Lia Formigari Pdf

The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th-century British philosophy. Different groups of sources are explored: philological and antiquarian writings, pedagogical treatises, debates on the respective merits of the liberal and mechanical arts, essays on cryptography and the art of gestures, polemical pamphlets on university reform, universal language scheme, and philosophical analyses of the conduct of the understanding. In the late 17th-century the philosophy of mind discards both the correspondence of predicamental series to reality and the archetypal metaphysics underpinning it. This is a turning point in semantic theory: language is conceived as the social construction of historical-conventional objects through signs and the study of strategies we use to bridge the gap between the privacy of experience and the publicness of speech emerges as one of the main topics in the philosophy of language.

Author : Hannah Dawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139463911

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Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy by Hannah Dawson Pdf

In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in various writers. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that developments in philosophy, in conjunction with weaknesses in linguistic theory, resulted in serious concerns about the capacity of words to refer to the world, the stability of meaning, and the duplicitous power of words themselves. Dr Dawson shows that language so fixated all manner of early-modern authors because it was seen as an obstacle to both knowledge and society. She thereby uncovers a novel story about the problem of language in philosophy, and in the process reshapes our understanding of early-modern epistemology, morality and politics.

Author : M. M. Slaughter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
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Release : 1982-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521244770

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Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century by M. M. Slaughter Pdf

Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication.

Author : Paul Cornelius
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 2600034714

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Languages in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Imaginary Voyages by Paul Cornelius Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Subbiondo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027277237

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John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics by Joseph L. Subbiondo Pdf

In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.

Author : Geoffrey Gorham,Benjamin Hill,Edward Slowik,C. Kenneth Waters
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452951850

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The Language of Nature by Geoffrey Gorham,Benjamin Hill,Edward Slowik,C. Kenneth Waters Pdf

Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural philosophy. Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated, and that philosophical controversies about the implications of mathematization cannot be understood in isolation from broader social developments related to the status and practice of mathematics in various commercial, political, and academic institutions. Contributors: Roger Ariew, U of South Florida; Richard T. W. Arthur, McMaster U; Lesley B. Cormack, U of Alberta; Daniel Garber, Princeton U; Ursula Goldenbaum, Emory U; Dana Jalobeanu, U of Bucharest; Douglas Jesseph, U of South Florida; Carla Rita Palmerino, Radboud U, Nijmegen and Open U of the Netherlands; Eileen Reeves, Princeton U; Christopher Smeenk, Western U; Justin E. H. Smith, U of Paris 7; Kurt Smith, Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania.

Author : Danilo Marcondes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793614735

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Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy by Danilo Marcondes Pdf

Danilo Marcondes argues that, contrary to a traditional view maintaining that language is not given any central role in early modern philosophy, an “early linguistic turn” in the seventeenth century opened a place for the philosophy of language as part of the philosophical system then under construction. Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy: The Early Linguistic Turn also claims that the revival of ancient skepticism at the modern age contributed decisively towards this “linguistic turn” insofar as it attacked the “powers of the intellect” in representing reality and making knowledge possible. Marcondes also argues that the concept of language itself becomes crucial to this investigation since the various understandings that developed during this period led to the central role that would be given to the philosophy of language in contemporary philosophy.

Author : Daniel Garber,Michael Ayers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521537207

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy by Daniel Garber,Michael Ayers Pdf

Annotation. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the volumes corresponds to the way an educated seventeenth-century European might have organised the domain of philosophy. Thus, the history of science, religious doctrine, and politics feature very prominently.

Author : Stephen K. Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4389795

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The Philosophy of Language in Britain by Stephen K. Land Pdf

Author : Dan Kaufman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317676966

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The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy by Dan Kaufman Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey of one of the most important eras in the history of Western philosophy - one which witnessed philosophical, scientific, religious and social change on a massive scale. A team of twenty international contributors provide students and scholars of philosophy and related disciplines with a detailed and accessible guide to seventeenth century philosophy. The Companion is divided into seven parts: Historical Context Metaphysics Epistemology Mind and Language Moral and Political Philosophy Natural Philosophy and the Material World Philosophical Theology. Major topics and themes are explored and discussed, including the scholastic context that shaped philosophy of the period, free will, skepticism, logic, mind-body problems, consciousness, arguments for the existence of God, and the problem of evil. As such The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is essential reading for all students of the period, both in philosophy and related disciplines such as literature, history, politics, and religious studies.

Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245359

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The Study of Language in 17th-century England by Vivian Salmon Pdf

This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the universal language .

Author : Conal Condren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349235667

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The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England by Conal Condren Pdf

This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of discourse. Further, there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the political vocabulary, charting the changing relationships between the words subject, citizen, resistance, rebellion, the coinage of rhetorical exchange. The final chapter returns most explicitly to the themes of the introduction, by exploring how the historians own vocabulary can be systematically misleading when taken into the context of seventeenth-century word use.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521099986

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Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? by Ian Hacking Pdf

Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues.