Thought And Reality

Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191514081

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Thought and Reality by Michael Dummett Pdf

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact obtain, and what constitutes their holding good. Facts correspond with true propositions, or true thoughts: when we know which propositions, or thoughts, in general, are true, we shall know what facts there are in general. Dummett considers the relation between metaphysics, our conception of the constitution of reality, and semantics, the theory that explains how statements are determined as true or as false in terms of their composition out of their constituent expressions. He investigates the two concepts on which the bridge that connects semantics to metaphysics rests, meaning and truth, and the role of justification in a theory of meaning. He then examines the special semantic and metaphysical issues that arise with relation to time and tense. On this basis Dummett puts forward his controversial view of reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter about whether an object does or does not have a given property. We have to relinquish our deep-held realist understanding of language, the illusion that we know what it is for any proposition that we can frame to be true independently of our having any means of recognizing its truth, and accept that truth depends on our capacity to apprehend it. Dummett concludes with a chapter about God.

Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262730065

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Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf Pdf

Writings by the pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf, including his famous work on the Hopi language as well as general reflections on language and meaning.

Author : John Henry McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Gustavus Watts Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:$B76120

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Thought and Reality in Hegel's System by Gustavus Watts Cunningham Pdf

Author : Poolla Tirupati Raju
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351242837

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Revival: Thought and Reality - Hegelianism and Advaita (1937) by Poolla Tirupati Raju Pdf

This work is a contribution to certain aspects of idealistic philosophy. It is a comparative study, yet it is not a comparison for the sake of comparison. This book examines the supra-rational Absolutism of the West developed under the Hegelian influence, and in the light of the criticisms shows the peculiar character of the Advaita Vedanta of Sankara. It is therefore not a mere exposition, but a criticism and construction. The discussions are not cosmological, but epistemological and metaphysical, approached from the side of logic. The work may also be viewed as a reorientation of Sankara's system. It places Sankara’s philosophy in line with the idealistic philosophies of the West, so that we can understand the peculiarities of the former in terms of the latter. It thus discovers or brings into clearer light the guiding principle of Sankara’s thought. It brings out the full significance of the principles of non-contradiction applied by Sankara as a test of truth and reality, and shows its difference from the same principle as understood by Hegel and the Hegelians. The aim of this work is to attempt at laying the metaphysical foundation of the logic of supra-rational Absolutism, the interpretation of Advaita is based mostly on polemical works.

Author : Doug Eiderzen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452022147

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Application of Thought and Reality by Doug Eiderzen Pdf

In relation to a summing-up process, the book, Application of Thought and Reality, moves into and proceeds as to a way of life incorporating values and beliefs within the Model. These values and beliefs are put in arrangement for this being. Within this practice, the application of the chain of command and the delegation of authority are studied. There will be direction and strategy given to the Model. There should be knowledge accumulated and derived from each concept or ATR and, then, purpose applied. The key will be the moving of reason to a completed objective which will be positive for the Model. That which is to be taught must be mastered by the Model. As some books are to be read, other books are to be studied. The Application of Thought and Reality should be a study. Within the book, each ATR (application of thought and reality) should be examined and considered as a direction. Learned principles should be incorporated into a daily form of pursuing life (attachment to life). All directs itself to the Model with a moving toward that being's endurance and continued existence in the awareness of life. The guiding of the Model must eventually produce the Elite Model.

Author : Thomas Hofweber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192556752

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Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality by Thomas Hofweber Pdf

Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book defends a form of idealism which holds that our human minds constrain, but do not construct, reality as the totality of facts. Reality as the totality of facts is thus not independent of our minds, and our minds play a metaphysically special role in all of reality. But reality as the totality of things is taken to be completely independent of us. Hofweber's proposed form of conceptual idealism is formulated via the notion of a harmony between our minds and reality. This harmony is defended through considerations in the philosophy of language. How can one possibly defend a metaphysical thesis like idealism from considerations about our own representation? A key step in the book's argument is to consider a special class of concepts—inescapable concepts—which we cannot rationally replace with different ones. This leads to a new approach for making progress in metaphysics—immanent metaphysics—which is broadly neo-Kantian in spirit.

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139436731

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Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality by Hans-Johann Glock Pdf

Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact is also strongly felt in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology. This book is devoted to both of them, but also questions some of their basic assumptions. Hans-Johann Glock critically scrutinizes their ideas on ontology, truth, necessity, meaning and interpretation, thought and language, and shows that their attempts to accommodate meaning and thought within a naturalistic framework, either by impugning them as unclear or by extracting them from physical facts, are ultimately unsuccessful. His discussion includes interesting comparisons of Quine and Davidson with other philosophers, particularly Wittgenstein, and also offers detailed accounts of central issues in contemporary analytic philosophy, such as the nature of truth and of meaning and interpretation, and the relation between thought and language.

Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262517751

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Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition by Benjamin Lee Whorf Pdf

Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report." The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages, as well as more general reflections on language and meaning. Whorf's ideas about the relation of language and thought have always appealed to a wide audience, but their reception in expert circles has alternated between dismissal and applause. Recently the language sciences have headed in directions that give Whorf's thinking a renewed relevance. Hence this new edition of Whorf's classic work is especially timely. The second edition includes all the writings from the first edition as well as John Carroll's original introduction, a new foreword by Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics that puts Whorf's work in historical and contemporary context, and new indexes. In addition, this edition offers Whorf's "Yale Report," an important work from Whorf's mature oeuvre.

Author : John W. Burbidge
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773541276

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Ideas, Concepts, and Reality by John W. Burbidge Pdf

An original exploration of the distinction between subjective ideas and objective concepts.

Author : Schommers Wolfram
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814556798

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Mind And Reality: The Space-time Window by Schommers Wolfram Pdf

The relationship between mind and reality is usually perceived as an event that takes place in reality and producing simultaneously an internal image in the mind. So it takes place twice, so to speak, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two events. Within this conception, matter is embedded in space and time, and can be designated as “container-principle”. This monograph emphasizes that the well-known philosopher Immanuel Kant denied this principle and he stated that reality is principally not recognizable to a human being, and modern biological evolution seems to lead exactly to Kant's point of view. Within the theory of evolution, man's image about reality in mind does not have to be complete and true in the sense of a precise reproduction, and it is relatively easy to recognize that even space and time should not be elements of reality outside. Within this conception, only a certain part of reality, which the human being needs for mastering life, is projected onto space and time, and we come to the so-called “projection principle”. Then, spacetime defines the window to reality, leading to a number of exciting and essential questions, some of which are discussed in this monograph.As is known, current physics is mainly based on the container-principle. But this monograph proposes that the projection principle is obviously more suitable and could help to solve open-ended questions as, for example, in connection with the nature of time, the particle-wave duality, the cosmological constant, etc. Regarding the statistical behavior of matter, Einstein's statement “God does not play dice” has to be seen in a new light, but also Feynman's general viewpoint on quantum theory that it cannot be understood by man. However, conventional quantum theory is obviously not a consistent framework as per the projection principle. The term “world equation” is critically probed in this monograph.

Author : David Lee Huner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545345570

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Thoughts Create Reality by David Lee Huner Pdf

This is a short book on how thoughts have created reality throughout history and throughout your life. You will learn some very important concepts that upon further research will open your life up to new and wonderful directions to make your life all that it can be and all that you desrie.

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393635812

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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers Pdf

A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.

Author : Paul L. Nunez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199914647

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Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality by Paul L. Nunez Pdf

Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? This book synthesizes ideas borrowed from philosophy, religion, and science. Topics range widely from brain imagining of thought processes to quantum mechanics and the essential role of information in brains and physical systems.

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620975121

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Losing Reality by Robert Jay Lifton Pdf

A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control In this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical religious cults may be much closer than anyone thought. Exploring the most extreme manifestations of human zealotry, Lifton highlights an array of leaders—from Mao to Hitler to the Japanese apocalyptic cult leader Shōkō Asahara to Donald Trump—who have sought the control of human minds and the ownership of reality. Lifton has spent decades exploring psychological extremism. His pioneering concept of the "Eight Deadly Sins" of ideological totalism—originally devised to identify "brainwashing" (or "thought reform") in political movements—has been widely quoted in writings about cults, and embraced by members and former members of religious cults seeking to understand their experiences. In Losing Reality Lifton makes clear that the apocalyptic impulse—that of destroying the world in order to remake it in purified form—is not limited to religious groups but is prominent in extremist political movements such as Nazism and Chinese Communism, and also in groups surrounding Donald Trump. Lifton applies his concept of "malignant normality" to Trump's efforts to render his destructive falsehoods a routine part of American life. But Lifton sees the human species as capable of "regaining reality" by means of our "protean" psychological capacities and our ethical and political commitments as "witnessing professionals." Lifton weaves together some of his finest work with extensive new commentary to provide vital understanding of our struggle with mental predators. Losing Reality is a book not only of stunning scholarship, but also of huge relevance for these troubled times.