Pure Pragmatics And Possible Worlds
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Pure Pragmatics And Possible Worlds
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Author : Wilfrid Sellars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Pure Pragmatics And Possible Worlds written by Wilfrid Sellars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume contains Wilfrid Sellars' major essays from 1947 through 1953 including the revised version of "Realism and the New Way of Words."
Topics In The Philosophy Of Possible Worlds
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Author : Daniel Nolan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Topics In The Philosophy Of Possible Worlds written by Daniel Nolan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Philosophy categories.
This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is necessary or possible and what could be.
Possible Worlds
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Author : Rod Girle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Possible Worlds written by Rod Girle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Philosophy categories.
Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics. To propose the idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our actual world - for example a world where the grass is red or where no people exist - can help us to analyse and understand a wide range of philosophical concepts, such as counterfactuals, properties, modality, and of course, the notions of possibility and necessity. This book examines the ways in which possible worlds have been used as a framework for considering problems in logic and argument analysis. The book begins with a non-technical introduction to the basic ideas of modal logic in terms of Kripke's possible worlds and then moves on to a discussion of 'possible for' and 'possible that'. The central chapters examine questions of meaning, epistemic possibility, temporal logic, metaphysics, and impossibility. Girle also investigates how the idea of a possible world can be put to use in different areas of philosophy, the problems it may raise, and the benefits that can be gained.
Possible Worlds
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Author : John Divers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-01-16
Possible Worlds written by John Divers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-16 with Mathematics categories.
Up-to-date and comprehensive study of a major topic in philosophy The first critical account of forty years of literature on possible worlds A huge topic in analytic philosophy especially in the past twenty-five yeasr and one of the major problems in philosophy as a whole This is the only book available that will introduce the topic to students in philosophy John Divers has taught possible worlds for many years
Wilfrid Sellars And The Foundations Of Normativity
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Author : Peter Olen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-13
Wilfrid Sellars And The Foundations Of Normativity written by Peter Olen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-13 with Philosophy categories.
While Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy is often depicted in an ahistorical fashion, this book explores the consequences of placing his work in its historical context. In order to show how Sellars’ early publications depend on contextual factors, Peter Olen reconstructs the conceptions of language, psychological, and social explanation that dominated American philosophy in the early 20th century. Because of Sellars’ differing explanations of language and behaviour, Olen argues that many of Sellars’ early commitments are incompatible with his later works. In the course of doing so, Olen highlights problematic tensions between Sellars’ early and later conceptions of language, meta-philosophy, and normativity. Supplementing the main text is a collection of previously unpublished archival material from Wilfrid Sellars, Gustav Bergmann, Everett Hall, and other early 20th century philosophers. This text will be a useful resource to those with an interest in the history of American philosophy, the history of analytic philosophy, Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy, and the myriad issues surrounding normativity and language.
Sellars And Contemporary Philosophy
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Author : David Pereplyotchik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Sellars And Contemporary Philosophy written by David Pereplyotchik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Philosophy categories.
Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly every area of philosophy. The aim of this collection is to highlight the continuing importance of Sellars’ work to contemporary debates. The contributors include several luminaries in Sellars scholarship, as well as members of the new generation whose work demonstrates the lasting power of Sellars’ ideas. Papers by O’Shea and Koons develop Sellars’ underexplored views concerning ethics, practical reasoning, and free will, with an emphasis on his longstanding engagement with Kant. Sachs, Hicks and Pereplyotchik relate Sellars’ views of mental phenomena to current topics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Fink, deVries, Price, Macbeth, Christias, and Brandom grapple with traditional Sellarsian themes, including meaning, truth, existence, and objectivity. Brandhoff provides an original account of the evolution of Sellars’ philosophy of language and his project of "pure pragmatics". The volume concludes with an author-meets-critics section centered around Robert Brandom’s recent book, From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars, with original commentaries and replies.
Philosophy And The Vision Of Language
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Author : Paul M. Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-06-15
Philosophy And The Vision Of Language written by Paul M. Livingston and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-15 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophy and the Vision of Language is a philosophical interpretation of the recourse to language in analytic philosophy over the twentieth century, examining the enduring significance of the linguistic turn that inaugurated the analytic tradition and still determines many of its characteristic methods and problems.
The Possible And The Actual
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Author : Michael J. Loux
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1979
The Possible And The Actual written by Michael J. Loux and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with First philosophy categories.
This well-chosen collection of fifteen important essays in the fields of philosophical logic and metaphysics addresses questions relating to the nature and status of possible worlds.
Categories Of Being
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Author : Leila Haaparanta
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-07-18
Categories Of Being written by Leila Haaparanta and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-18 with Philosophy categories.
This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most general categories of being. Beginning with Aristotle and his Categories , the volume goes on to trace metaphyscis and logic through the late ancient and Arabic traditions, examining the views of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, contributors engage with Leibniz's metaphysics, Kant's critique of metaphysics, the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel, and Bolzano's views. Subsequent chapters address: Charles S. Peirce's logic and metaphysics; the relevance of set-theory to metaphysics; Meinong's theory of objects; Husserl's formal ontology; early analytic philosophy; C.I. Lewis and his relation to Russell; and the relations between Frege, Carnap, and Heidegger. Surveying metaphysics through to the contemporary age, essays explore W.V. Quine's attitude towards metaphysics; Wilfrid Sellars's relation to antidescriptivism as it connects to Kripke's; the views of Putnam and Kaplan; Peter F. Strawson's and David M. Armstrong's metaphysics; Trope theory; and its relation to Popper's conception of three worlds. The volume ends with a chapter on transcendental philosophy as ontology. In each chapter, contributors approach their topics not merely in an historical and exegetical fashion, but also engage critically with the thought of the philosophers whose work they discuss, offering synthesis and original philosophical thought in the volume, in addition to very extensive and well-informed analysis and interpretation of important philosophical texts. The volume will serve as an essential reference for scholars of metaphysics and logic.
The Pittsburgh School Of Philosophy
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Author : Chauncey Maher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-21
The Pittsburgh School Of Philosophy written by Chauncey Maher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Philosophy categories.
In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are distinctive because they occupy a norm-governed "space of reasons." Along with Sellars, Robert Brandom and John McDowell have tried to work out the implications of that idea for understanding knowledge, thought, norms, language, and intentional action. The aim of this book is to introduce their shared views on those topics, while also charting a few key disputes between them.