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Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674910761
A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.
Author : Miroslaw Szatkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110418934
The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas. The essays vary widely in topic and tone. They provide the reader with an overview of contemporary philosophical approaches to the subjects that are indicated in the title of the book.
Author : Michael A. E. Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01
Category : Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925
ISBN : 0715616501
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : 0801406005
Author : B. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137400703
Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume.
Author : S.G. Shanker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317832034
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mark Quentin Gardiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802047718
Although many philosophers espouse anti-realism, the only sustained arguments for the position are due to Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. Gardiner's unpretentious style and lucid organization make sense of Dummett's and Putnam's discourse.
Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441167286
In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America's leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity. Twenty years after it was first published to great acclaim, Margolis has updated Pragmatism Without Foundations in the light of his most recent work and the development of pragmatism in the intellectual world. This second edition includes an updated preface and a brand new epilogue addressing these developments and their implications for his earlier work.
Author : Leila Haaparanta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199722722
This edited volume presents a comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the twentieth century. In addition to a history of symbolic logic, the contributors also examine developments in the philosophy of logic and philosophical logic in modern times. The book begins with chapters on late medieval developments and logic and philosophy of logic from Humanism to Kant. The following chapters focus on the emergence of symbolic logic with special emphasis on the relations between logic and mathematics, on the one hand, and on logic and philosophy, on the other. This discussion is completed by a chapter on the themes of judgment and inference from 1837-1936. The volume contains a section on the development of mathematical logic from 1900-1935, followed by a section on main trends in mathematical logic after the 1930s. The volume goes on to discuss modal logic from Kant till the late twentieth century, and logic and semantics in the twentieth century; the philosophy of alternative logics; the philosophical aspects of inductive logic; the relations between logic and linguistics in the twentieth century; the relationship between logic and artificial intelligence; and ends with a presentation of the main schools of Indian logic. The Development of Modern Logic includes many prominent philosophers from around the world who work in the philosophy and history of mathematics and logic, who not only survey developments in a given period or area but also seek to make new contributions to contemporary research in the field. It is the first volume to discuss the field with this breadth of coverage and depth, and will appeal to scholars and students of logic and its philosophy.
Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826477323
Christopher Norris attempts to make epistemology, the theory of knowledge, accessible to students and those with little prior knowledge of the subject through a series of debates which aim to give an balanced overview.
Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317494331
Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. This volume covers the central texts in the history of analytic philosophy from Quine's Word and Object (1960) to the present day. The texts range over political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophies of language, mind and logic and represent some of the most important philosophical work of the last forty years. Students and non-specialists who may find the technicality of some of the texts forbidding will welcome the clarity of exposition and exegesis that the essays provide. Taken together the essays provide both a map and compass for the current philosophical landscape and will prove a valuable resource not only for undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy students but for teachers and researchers in allied disciplines who need an understanding of the preoccupations of contemporary philosophy.
Author : Dominik Finkelde,Slavoj Žižek,Christoph Menke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350172043
Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object's ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj Žižek's The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics and aesthetics. With articles written by internationally renowned philosophers such as Frank Ruda, Graham Harman, Paul Livingston and Zizek himself, this book shows how modes of parallax remain in numerous modern theoretical disciplines, such as the Marxian parallax in the critique of political economy and politics; and the Hegelian parallax in the concept of the work of art, while also being important to debates surrounding speculative realism and dialectical materialism. Spanning philosophy, parallax is then a rich and fruitful concept that can illuminate the studies of those working in epistemology, ontology, German Idealism, political philosophy and critical theory.
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674537866
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Author : Sanford Shieh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192568809
A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true. A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in philosophy is that, at its very inception, this venerable conception of the relation between logic and necessity and possibility - the concepts of modality - was put into question. The founders of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, held that these concepts are empty: there are no genuine distinctions among the necessary, the possible, and the actual. In this book, the first of two volumes, Sanford Shieh investigates the grounds of this position and its consequences for Frege's and Russell's conceptions of logic. The grounds lie in doctrines on truth, thought, and knowledge, as well as on the relation between mind and reality, that are central to the philosophies of Frege and Russell, and are of enduring philosophical interest. The upshot of this opposition to modality is that logic is fundamental, and, to be coherent, modal concepts would have to be reconstructed in logical terms. This rejection of modality in early analytic philosophy remains of contemporary significance, though the coherence of modal concepts is rarely questioned nowadays because it is generally assumed that suspicion of modality derives from logical positivism, which has not survived philosophical scrutiny. The anti-modal arguments of Frege and Russell, however, have nothing to do with positivism and remain a challenge to the contemporary acceptance of modal notions.
Author : Christopher Peacocke
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519468
Being Known is a response to a philosophical challenge which arises for every area of thought. The challenge is one of reconciling our conception of truth in an area with the means by which we think we come to know truth about that area. Meeting the challenge may require a revision of our conception of truth in that area; or a revision of our theory of knowledge for that area; or a revision in our conception of the relations between the two. Christopher Peacocke presents a framework for addressing the challenge, a framework which links both the theory of knowledge and the theory of truth with the theory of concept-possession. It formulates a set of constraints and a general form of solution for a wide range of topics. He goes on to propose specific solutions within this general form for a series of classically problematic subjects: the past; metaphysical necessity; the intentional contents of our own mental states; the self; and freedom of the will. Being Known will interest anyone concerned with those individual topics, as well as those concerned more generally with meaning and understanding, metaphysics and epistemology, and their interrelations.