Logic, Thought and Language
Author | : Anthony O'Hear |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521529662 |
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Author | : Anthony O'Hear |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521529662 |
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Author | : John Martin Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Argues that categorization, and not syntax, is the most important aspect of language, suggests that some philosophical problems are caused by an inadequate theory of language, and promotes a fresh approach to linguistic theory.
Author | : Butterfield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521320467 |
This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves. Developing from these themes are the questions: what does having a belief require of the believer, and of the way he or she relates to the environment? In particular, does having a belief require speaking a language? The volume concludes the informal series stemming from the meetings sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation. It will interest analytical philosophers, students doing courses in philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition and philosophically interested researchers in cognitive psychology.
Author | : Richard G. Heck |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198239208 |
In this exciting new collection, a distinguished international group of philosophers contribute new essays on central issues in philosophy of language and logic, in honor of Michael Dummett, one of the most influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. The essays are focused on areas particularly associated with Professor Dummett. Five are contributions to the philosophy of language, addressing in particular the nature of truth and meaning and the relation between language and thought. Two contributors discuss time, in particular the reality of the past. The last four essays focus on Frege and the philosophy of mathematics. The volume represents some of the best work in contemporary analytical philosophy.
Author | : Rodger L. Jackson |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1460402782 |
The Logic of Our Language teaches the practical and everyday application of formal logic. Rather than overwhelming the reader with abstract theory, Jackson and McLeod show how the skills developed through the practice of logic can help us to better understand our own language and reasoning processes. The authors’ goal is to draw attention to the patterns and logical structures inherent in our spoken and written language by teaching the reader how to translate English sentences into formal symbols. Other logical tools, including truth tables, truth trees, and natural deduction, are then introduced as techniques for examining the properties of symbolized sentences and assessing the validity of arguments. A substantial number of practice questions are offered both within the book itself and as interactive activities on a companion website.
Author | : Alfred Jules Ayer |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0486113094 |
"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.
Author | : Ray Jackendoff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780262600460 |
A wide-ranging collection of essays inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara.
Author | : Johan van der Auwera |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9027250022 |
In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning.
Author | : Marie McGinn |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-11-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191529591 |
Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn's principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative line, which rejects the idea, central to the metaphysical reading, that Wittgenstein sets out to ground the logic of our language in features of an independently constituted reality, but which allows that he aims to provide positive philosophical insights into how language functions. McGinn takes as a guiding principle the idea that we should see Wittgenstein's early work as an attempt to eschew philosophical theory and to allow language itself to reveal how it functions. By this account, the aim of the work is to elucidate what language itself makes clear, namely, what is essential to its capacity to express thoughts that are true or false. However, the early Wittgenstein undertakes this descriptive project in the grip of a set of preconceptions concerning the essence of language that determine both how he conceives the problem and the approach he takes to the task of clarification. Nevertheless, the Tractatus contains philosophical insights, achieved despite his early preconceptions, that form the foundation of his later philosophy. The anti-metaphysical interpretation that is presented includes a novel reading of the problematic opening sections of the Tractatus, in which the apparently metaphysical status of Wittgenstein's remarks is shown to be an illusion. The book includes a discussion of the philosophical background to the Tractatus, a comprehensive interpretation of Wittgenstein's early views of logic and language, and an interpretation of the remarks on solipsism. The final chapter is a discussion of the relation between the early and the later philosophy that articulates the fundamental shift in Wittgenstein's approach to the task of understanding how language functions and reveal the still more fundamental continuity in his conception of his philosophical task.
Author | : Andrea Iacona |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2018-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319741543 |
Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled reflection on that method. Its central thesis is that there is no such thing as a correct answer to the question of what is logical form: two significantly different notions of logical form are needed to fulfill two major theoretical roles that pertain respectively to logic and to semantics. This thesis has a negative and a positive side. The negative side is that a deeply rooted presumption about logical form turns out to be overly optimistic: there is no unique notion of logical form that can play both roles. The positive side is that the distinction between two notions of logical form, once properly spelled out, sheds light on some fundamental issues concerning the relation between logic and language.