Meaning Truth And The Limits Of Analysis
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Meaning Truth And The Limit Of Analysis
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Author : David Wiggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Meaning Truth And The Limit Of Analysis written by David Wiggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Language and languages categories.
This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late 20th century, the book engages first with the nuts and bolts of sentence-construction: predicates and the copula, quantifiers, names, existence treated as a second-level predicate, and adverbial modification.
The Dawn Of Analysis
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Author : Scott Soames
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-30
The Dawn Of Analysis written by Scott Soames and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-30 with Philosophy categories.
This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers' hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, a priori truth, and necessary truth, and (2) gradual acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in sound prephilosophical thought. Though Soames views this history in a positive light, he also illustrates the difficulties, false starts, and disappointments endured along the way. As he engages with the work of his predecessors and contemporaries--from Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke--he seeks to highlight their accomplishments while also pinpointing their shortcomings, especially where their perspectives were limited by an incomplete grasp of matters that have now become clear. Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition's most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas. His gift for clear exposition makes the history as accessible to advanced undergraduates as it will be important to scholars. Despite its centrality to philosophy in the English-speaking world, the analytic tradition in philosophy has had very few synthetic histories. This will be the benchmark against which all future accounts will be measured.
Othello And The Problem Of Knowledge
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Author : Richard Gaskin
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-16
Othello And The Problem Of Knowledge written by Richard Gaskin and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Philosophy categories.
This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with traditional sceptical problems, and in particular with the problem of other minds. In this book, Richard Gaskin argues that the play does indeed connect in interesting—but also in surprising and so far relatively unexplored—ways with traditional epistemological concerns. Shakespeare presupposes a generally Wittgensteinian model of mind as revealed in behaviour, and communication as necessarily successful in general. Gaskin examines different epistemological models of the tragedy, and argues that it is useful to apply materials from Wittgenstein’s On Certainty to the analysis of Othello’s loss of confidence in Desdemona’s fidelity: Othello treats Desdemona’s fidelity as a ‘hinge certainty’, something that is so fundamental to the language-game that abandoning it results—so Wittgenstein predicts—in chaos and madness. The tragedy arises, Gaskin suggests, from treating the wrong kind of thing as a hinge certainty. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of literature, Shakespeare, and Wittgenstein.
Michel Foucault
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Author : Barry Smart
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Michel Foucault written by Barry Smart and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
This classic series provides students with concise and readable introductions to the work, life and influence of the great sociological thinkers.
Michel Foucault
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Author : Sara Mills
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11
Michel Foucault written by Sara Mills and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts for the first time, this volume offers:* an examination of Foucault's contexts* a guide to his key ideas* an overview of responses to his work* practical hints on 'using Foucault'* an annotated guide to his most influential works* suggestions for further reading.Challenging not just what we think but how we think, Foucault's work remains the subject of heated debate. Sara Mills' Michel Foucault offers an introduction to both the ideas and the debate, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.
Replacing Truth
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Author : Kevin Scharp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07-11
Replacing Truth written by Kevin Scharp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with Philosophy categories.
Kevin Scharp proposes an original account of the nature and logic of truth, on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes. He argues that truth is best understood as an inconsistent concept; develops an axiomatic theory of truth; and offers a new kind of possible-worlds semantics for this theory.
Needs Values Truth
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Author : David Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Needs Values Truth written by David Wiggins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.
Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author ranges between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language, looking at questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.
Spandrels Of Truth
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Author : Jc Beall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-04-09
Spandrels Of Truth written by Jc Beall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-09 with Philosophy categories.
Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which 'is true' is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. This device, when introduced into the language, brings about truth-theoretic paradoxes (particularly, the notorious Liar and Curry paradoxes). The options for dealing with the paradoxes while preserving the full transparency of 'true' are limited. In Spandrels of Truth, Beall concisely presents anddefends a modest, so-called dialetheic theory of transparent truth.
Truth Invention And The Meaning Of Life
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Author : David Wiggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Truth Invention And The Meaning Of Life written by David Wiggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Ethics categories.
The Limits Of Logical Empiricism
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Author : Arthur Pap
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-03-02
The Limits Of Logical Empiricism written by Arthur Pap and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Philosophy categories.
This volume collects some of the most significant papers of Arthur Pap. Pap’s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This goes beyond the merely historical fact of Pap’s influential views of dispositional and modal concepts. Pap's writings in philosophy of science, modality, and philosophy of mathematics provide insightful alternative perspectives on philosophical problems of current interest.