Wandering Significance

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191533440

Get Book

Wandering Significance by Mark Wilson Pdf

Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. Words such as colour, shape, solidity exemplify the commonplace conceptual tools we employ to describe and order the world around us. But the world's goods are complex in their behaviors and we often overlook the subtle adjustments that our evaluative terms undergo as their usage becomes gradually adapted to different forms of supportive circumstance. Wilson not only explains how these surprising strategies of hidden management operate, but also tells the astonishing story of how faulty schemes and great metaphysical systems sometimes spring from a simple failure to recognize the innocent wanderings to which our descriptive words are heir. Wilson combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability.

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199532308

Get Book

Wandering Significance by Mark Wilson Pdf

"Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. He combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability."--Publisher's description.

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244409005

Get Book

Just Wandering by Julian Scutts Pdf

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781329811409

Get Book

"Wandering" In Literature, a Mere Word? by Julian Scutts Pdf

This book does not find its starting point in a theory but in the recognition that the word "Wanderer," and other forms based on the common root of the verbs to "wander" and "wandern," recur with conspicuous frequency in the writings of Goethe and English Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Lord Byron. A notable scholar, Professor L. A. Willoughby sought an explanation for this phenomnon in Carl G. Jung's theory of the unconscious but Willoughby's sole ambit of reference was what he termed "Goethe's poetry." This restriction could not allow the scope necessary for the study of the collective aspect of the mind's power and influence. This study poses the attempt to widen the survey of "wandering" to a comparison of texts found in a wide variety of authors including Milton, Shakespeare and William Blake.

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244512002

Get Book

A Defence of Wandering and Poetry by Julian Scutts Pdf

Author : Thomas Fossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197645703

Get Book

Facing Authority by Thomas Fossen Pdf

"When your friends call on you to take to the streets and demand the fall of the regime, this presses a practical predicament that we all address, often implicitly, in our everyday lives: is this regime legitimate? Facing Authority investigates the ways in which this question of legitimacy can be addressed in theory and practice, in the face of disagreement and uncertainty. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, it examines how the question of legitimacy manifests itself in practice. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so? And what does it mean to do this well? Facing Authority proposes that judging legitimacy is not a matter of applying moral knowledge, provided by political philosophy, but of engaging in various forms of political contestation-contestation over the representation of power (what is the nature of the regime?), collective selfhood (who am I, and who are we?), and the meaning of events (what happened here-a coup, or a revolution?). These questions constitute the heart of the question of legitimacy, but thus far they have been neglected by theorists of legitimacy. This book offers a new way of thinking about political legitimacy and practical judgment, interweaving philosophical analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with concrete examples of struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. The result is a pragmatist alternative to predominant moralist and realist approaches to legitimacy in political philosophy"--

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780244504441

Get Book

A Defence of Wandering by Julian Scutts Pdf

"Wandering" in the sense indicated in the title of this book concerns the fact that within the ambit of German and English literature since the days of Shakespeare words based on the root of the verbs 'to wander' and 'wandern' appear with great frequency and prominence in such titles as "Wandrers Nachtlied" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud." Is it not strange then that very little interest has been taken in this phenomenon on the part of leading literary critics and scholars with one or two notable exceptions? One reason for this neglect might lie in intransient attitudes and dogmatic theories that deny the very relevance of high literature to all things external in common life, social conditions and the quest for truth.

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780244205447

Get Book

A Defence of Wandering and Why I am not a Follower of the Objectivist School of Criticism by Julian Scutts Pdf

The title picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley in combination with the words 'Wandering" and "defence" imply that "wandering" is another way of saying "poetry," an inference to be drawn from the words of great poets of Shelley's generation. In every age most probably poetry needs to be defended anew. In Shelley's day the threat sprang from a philosophical climate that saw virtue in lucid unambiguous prose alone. Today leading theorists deny any vital connection between words found in poetry and literary prose and what they ostensibly point to in the world around. As such critics cannot find anything in 'wandering' to support their arguments they tend to ignore it as far as possible but words such as 'wanderer' are so deeply entrenched in German and English poetry that "wandering" resolutely stays put.

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198803478

Get Book

Physics Avoidance by Mark Wilson Pdf

Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout ways ; and philosophy must find better descriptive tools to reflect this.

Author : Sarah-Jane Conrad,Klaus Petrus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504235

Get Book

Meaning, Context and Methodology by Sarah-Jane Conrad,Klaus Petrus Pdf

What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of referential semantics and its power to explain truth-conditional meaning. This assumption has come under attack by the context thesis and a number of papers pursue the question of whether this is justified. The second assumption gives priority to assertive sentences when considering language use. The context thesis changes our understanding of language use altogether; possible implications from this methodological shift are addressed in this volume. According to the third assumption, philosophical analysis amounts to nothing more than conceptual analysis. The context thesis risks undermining this project. Whether conceptual analysis can still be defended as a methodological tool is discussed in this volume.

Author : Anil Gupta
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195136036

Get Book

Truth, Meaning, Experience by Anil Gupta Pdf

This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central problems of philosophy. Gupta argues that logical interdependence is legitimate, and that it provides a key to understanding a variety of topics--including truth, rationality, and experience.

Author : Kimberley J. Devlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861743

Get Book

Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake by Kimberley J. Devlin Pdf

Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce's rewritings of literary fictions from his earlier artistic periods. She demonstrates the notion of psychological return as she traces the obsessions, scenarios, and images from Joyce's "waking" fictions that resurface in his final dreamtext in uncanny forms, transformed yet discernible, often to uncover hidden, unconscious truths. Drawing on psychoanalytic arguments and recent feminist theory, Devlin maps intertextual connections that reveal many of Joyce's most deeply felt imaginative and intellectual concerns, such as the self in its decentered relationship to language, the elusive nature of human identity, the anxieties implicit in mortal selfhood, the male subject in its opposition to the female sexual "other." She suggests that the Wake records Joyce's implicit interest in the psychological counterpart to Vico's theory of historical repetition: Freud's theory of the insistent internal return of earlier narratives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : P. Wagner,Michael Beaney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230379749

Get Book

Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism by P. Wagner,Michael Beaney Pdf

The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.

Author : Jeffrey A Bell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748692552

Get Book

Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? by Jeffrey A Bell Pdf

In their final collaborative work, Deleuze and Guattari set out to address the question, 'what is philosophy?' Their answer is simple enough: philosophy 'is the art of forming, inventing and fabricating concepts'. Following the chapters and themes of What

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780244798192

Get Book

"And Is There Honey Still for Tea?" Questing Unity by Julian Scutts Pdf

The reference to 'questing unity" pertains to many different subjects and themes involving grappling with issues in such areas as comparative literature, linguistics, literature, history and mythology. In all events every comparison implies a criterion wide enough to comprehend the scope of the common area occupied by the subjects of comparison, whether the inquirer is aware f it or not. Thus comparison involves delving into one's own psyche, or not? Without the assumption of a universal underlying unity: no religion, no science and no sanity.