Philosophical Troubles

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199875610

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This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume. Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199912179

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Philosophical Troubles by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume. Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804687826

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Philosophical Troubles by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

Author : Anat Biletzki,Anat Matar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134716135

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The Story of Analytic Philosophy by Anat Biletzki,Anat Matar Pdf

This unique collection looks at analytic philosophy in its historical context. Prominent philosophers discuss key figures, including Russell and Wittgenstein, methods and results in analytic philosophy to present its story. This volume assesses the challenge posed by changing cultural and philosophical trends and movements.

Author : Robert Arrington,Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134912490

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Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Robert Arrington,Hans-Johann Glock Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Friedrich Waismann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1968-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349001026

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How I See Philosophy by Friedrich Waismann Pdf

Author : Gordon Hunnings
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0887065856

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The World and Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy by Gordon Hunnings Pdf

This book explores the interrelated concepts of representation and grammar in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Throughout his life, Wittgenstein was obsessed with the problem of the nature of language and the relationship between language and the world. His intellectual journey, one of the most compelling in twentieth century thought, is the detailed adventure told by Gordon Hunnings in The World and Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy. This book surveys Wittgenstein's elucidation of how the world is represented in language, including the posthumously published material of his middle period. Early in his career, Wittgenstein's answer to the problem explored the representational connection between language and the world through the analogy of propositions as logical pictures of facts. Later, his mature answer elucidated the concept of the world as a construction of logical grammar. Hunnings shows how these shifting images of reality reflected in language also mirror the changes in Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Author : Rodrigo Borges,Claudio de Almeida,Peter D. Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191036835

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Explaining Knowledge by Rodrigo Borges,Claudio de Almeida,Peter D. Klein Pdf

The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in epistemology for more than fifty years. Before Edmund Gettier published his famous 1963 paper, it was generally presumed that knowledge was equivalent to true belief supported by adequate evidence. Gettier presented a powerful challenge to that presumption. This led to the development and refinement of many prominent epistemological theories, for example, defeasibility theories, causal theories, conclusive-reasons theories, tracking theories, epistemic virtue theories, and knowledge-first theories. The debate about the appropriate use of intuition to provide evidence in all areas of philosophy began as a debate about the epistemic status of the 'Gettier intuition'. The differing accounts of epistemic luck are all rooted in responses to the Gettier Problem. The discussions about the role of false beliefs in the production of knowledge are directly traceable to Gettier's paper, as are the debates between fallibilists and infallibilists. Indeed, it is fair to say that providing a satisfactory response to the Gettier Problem has become a litmus test of any adequate account of knowledge even those accounts that hold that the Gettier Problem rests on mistakes of various sorts. This volume presents a collection of essays by twenty-six experts, including some of the most influential philosophers of our time, on the various issues that arise from Gettier's challenge to the analysis of knowledge. Explaining Knowledge sets the agenda for future work on the central problem of epistemology.

Author : Errol Morris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226922706

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The Ashtray by Errol Morris Pdf

Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth. In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, was—and, posthumously, remains—a star in his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that has sold well over a million copies and introduced the concept of “paradigm shifts” to the larger culture. And Morris thought the idea was bunk. The Ashtray tells why—and in doing so, it makes a powerful case for Morris’s way of viewing the world, and the centrality to that view of a fundamental conception of the necessity of truth. “For me,” Morris writes, “truth is about the relationship between language and the world: a correspondence idea of truth.” He has no patience for philosophical systems that aim for internal coherence and disdain the world itself. Morris is after bigger game: he wants to establish as clearly as possible what we know and can say about the world, reality, history, our actions and interactions. It’s the fundamental desire that animates his filmmaking, whether he’s probing Robert McNamara about Vietnam or the oddball owner of a pet cemetery. Truth may be slippery, but that doesn’t mean we have to grease its path of escape through philosophical evasions. Rather, Morris argues powerfully, it is our duty to do everything we can to establish and support it. In a time when truth feels ever more embattled, under siege from political lies and virtual lives alike, The Ashtray is a bracing reminder of its value, delivered by a figure who has, over decades, uniquely earned our trust through his commitment to truth. No Morris fan should miss it.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192559890

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Puzzles of Reference by Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever Pdf

It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first book to give a comprehensive accessible survey of the fascinating work on this topic from the 1970s to the present day. Written by two eminent philosophers of language, Puzzles of Reference offers an up-to-date introduction to reference in philosophy and linguistics, summarizing ideas such as Kripke's revolutionary theory and presenting the various challenges in a clear and accessible manner. As the text does not assume prior training in philosophy or linguistics, it is ideal for use as part of a philosophy of language course for philosophy students or for linguistics students. Puzzles of Reference belongs to the series Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language, in which each book provides an introduction to an important area of the philosophy of language, suitable for students at any level.

Author : Kevin McCain,Scott Stapleford,Matthias Steup
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000468496

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Epistemic Dilemmas by Kevin McCain,Scott Stapleford,Matthias Steup Pdf

This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is there an epistemic analog to moral dilemmas? Are there epistemically dilemmic situations—situations in which we are doomed to violate an epistemic requirement? If there are, when exactly do they arise and what can we learn from them? The contributors to this volume cover a wide variety of positions on epistemic dilemmas. The coverage ranges from discussions of the nature of epistemic dilemmas to arguments that there are no such things to suggestions for how to resolve (or at least live with) epistemic dilemmas to proposals for how thinking about epistemic dilemmas can be used to inform theorizing in other areas of epistemology. Epistemic Dilemmas will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology working on the nature of justification and evidential support, higher-order requirements, or suspension of judgment.

Author : Luis R. G. Oliveira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192636584

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Externalism about Knowledge by Luis R. G. Oliveira Pdf

Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.

Author : Dean Edward Buckner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498587426

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Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures by Dean Edward Buckner Pdf

In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person is talking or writing about or addressing in prayer without familiarity with the narrative (oral or written) which introduces that individual to us, so we cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures. In this context we must understand God as the person who “walked in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), and who is continuously referred to in the books of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, as well as the Quran. Further developing ideas presented by the late Fred Sommers in his seminal The Logic of Natural Language, Buckner argues that singular reference and singular conception is empty outside such a context.

Author : Gilbert Ryle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107113626

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Dilemmas by Gilbert Ryle Pdf

This book shows that the conflicts that arise from everyday ways of thinking are not dilemmas as they appear to be.

Author : John M. Doris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192667328

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Character Trouble by John M. Doris Pdf

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology since their rise to prominence in the 1990's. His work has helped foster a methodological reorientation in the field, and has had a transformative effect on the way philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This volume collects a selection of Doris' work spanning 20 years, focusing on the ways in which human personality orders (and fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour. It also presents two new chapters, which together form an in-depth assessment of recent developments in the moral psychology of character, as well as a closing commentary outlining methodological recommendations for those aspiring to do empirically responsible moral psychology. Together, these works present a distinctive vision of moral psychology which will engage both philosophers and psychologists.