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Author | : Jesús Padilla Gálvez |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2024-11-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3111577724 |
Wittgenstein used the concept of language games to refer to all forms of linguistic expression in practical contexts and to the myriad ways in which signs are used in language. He used the term to specify speaking as an activity and to relate it to a form of life. Wittgenstein was well aware that his proposal for “language games” did not solve the central problems of language. Until today, the essential characteristics of the concept remain unspecified. The contributors in this volume analyze the reasons for the difficulties in understanding the concept and propose new essential characteristics and contents, by examining language games such as certainty and error, belief, strategy, and their linguistic foundations.
Author | : Maria Baghramian |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317701658 |
This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractable differences of perspectives and disagreements in various domains. Standards of truth, rationality, and ethical right and wrong vary greatly and there are no universal criteria for adjudicating between them. In considering this problem, relativism suggests that what is true or right can only be determined within variable contexts of assessment. This book brings together articles published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies over a period of 17 years, as well as in a Special Issue of the journal published in 2004. The chapters in Section I discuss some of the main forms of relativism. Section II sheds light on the different motivations for relativism, assessing their strengths and weaknesses. Section III provides a detailed examination of the vexed question of whether Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his later work, supported relativism. The varied responses to this important question shed light on the issues discussed in Sections I and II. This collection is a lively and engaging resource for scholars interested in the crucial impact relativism has had on the way we think about the meaning of truth, and what is right and wrong. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
Author | : Evelyn Blackwood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136550593 |
This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguished authors examine Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior, Mexican homosexual interaction in public contexts, male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil, and much more.
Author | : Phil Washburn |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Sixteen original essays that discuss the question "what is philosophy." Each essay presents on great philosopher's unique vision of the nature of philosophy, and the collection illustrates the diversity of approaches that make philosophy perennially fascinating and that also make the great philosophers our contemporaries. Additional commentaries give readers a rich, multifaceted understanding of the meaning of philosophy. -- Publisher description
Author | : Christopher J. Insole |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317018214 |
Taking into consideration analytical, continental, historical, post-modern and contemporary thinkers, Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris. Where truth is exhausted by our beliefs about truth, there is no conceptual space for doubting those beliefs; only a conception of truth as absolute, given and accessible can guarantee the very humility, sense of fallibility and sensitivity to difference that the anti-realist rightly values. Cutting through some of the tired and well-rehearsed debates in this area, Insole provides a fresh perspective on approaches influenced by Wittgenstein, Kant, and apophatic theology. The defence of realism offered is unusual in being both analytically precise, and theologically sensitive, with a view to some of the wider and less well-explored cultural, ethical and political implications of the debate.
Author | : Chrystopher L. Nehaniv |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780262042031 |
An interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifacts.
Author | : Hermann Ha ring |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Serap Kurbanoğlu |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3319521624 |
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2016. The 52 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: inclusive society and democracy; employability and workplace; various literacies; reading preference: print vs electronic; theoretical aspects; higher education; discipline based studies; research methods; children and youth; country based studies; academic libraries; librarians; and teaching methods and instruction.
Author | : Cesare Cornoldi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1996-03-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0198026005 |
This is the first volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores the issues being debated in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience. Each volume consists of the presentation of three or four extensive chapters by researchers representing key points of view on the issue. This text examines one of the liveliest areas of debate in psychology today, the relationship between perception and mental imagery. A variety of recent studies have pointed to the existence of a strong relationship between memory and mental representation, while others have shown that images are open to reinterpretation and manipulation, and are therefore not merely static impressions or mental representations of memories. Three core chapters by researchers in the midst of this debate--Maria Brandimonte, Geir Kaufmann, and Dan Reisberg--make up the central portion of this text. The first chapter is a historical overview of the problem as well as a review of the research in psychology and the argument as it has developed in related fields, such as philosophy and artificial intelligence. The last chapter pulls together all of the positions and points to new areas of research which may help uncover an explanation for the apparent contradictions in the research. Students and researchers in psychology and cognitive psychology will benefit from this comprehensive look at this heated debate.
Author | : Sami Pihlström |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9042017473 |
This book examines the issue of moral realism from a pragmatist point of view, drawing attention to our human practices of ethical evaluation and deliberation. It defends the essentially ungrounded and humanly fundamental place of ethics in our thought and action. Ethics must remain beyond justification and ubiquitous in our human form(s) of life.