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Author | : Andrew Pessin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315284790 |
In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning, thought and knowledge were shocking. This work contains writings on the subject of Twin Earth.
Author | : Andrew Pessin |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 9781557787200 |
Author | : John-Michael Kuczynski |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027252050 |
What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example: One can rationally accept self-contradictory propositions (e.g. Smith is a composer and Smith is not a composer). Psychological states are causally inert: beliefs and desires do nothing. The mind cannot be understood in terms of folk-psychological concepts (e.g. belief, desire, intention). One can have a single concept without having any others: an otherwise conceptless creature could grasp the concept of justice or of the number seven. Thoughts are sentence-tokens, and thought-processes are driven by the syntactic, not the semantic, properties of those tokens. In the first half of Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind, John-Michael Kuczynski argues that these implausible but widely held views are direct consequences of a popular doctrine known as content-externalism, this being the view that the contents of one's mental states are constitutively dependent on facts about the external world. Kuczynski shows that content-externalism involves a failure to distinguish between, on the one hand, what is literally meant by linguistic expressions and, on the other hand, the information that one must work through to compute the literal meanings of such expressions. The second half of the present work concerns the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Underlying CTM is an acceptance of conceptual atomism the view that a creature can have a single concept without having any others and also an acceptance of the view that concepts are not descriptive (i.e. that one can have a concept of a thing without knowing of any description that is satisfied by that thing). Kuczynski shows that both views are false, one reason being that they presuppose the truth of content-externalism, another being that they are incompatible with the epistemological anti-foundationalism proven correct by Wilfred Sellars and Laurence Bonjour. Kuczynski also shows that CTM involves a misunderstanding of terms such as computation, syntax, algorithm and formal truth; and he provides novel analyses of the concepts expressed by these terms. (Series A)
Author | : Peter Unger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019069601X |
During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly. This book argues that's an illusion that prevails because of the failure to differentiate between "concretely substantial" and "concretely empty" ideas.
Author | : David Blair |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2006-05-16 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1402045832 |
“The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the con?ict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The con?ict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. —We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk; so we need 1 friction. Back to the rough ground!” —Ludwig Wittgenstein This manuscript consists of four related parts: a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s p- losophy of language and its relevance to information systems; a detailed explanation of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language and mind; an extended discussion of the re- vance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems, especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the intellectual content of that information. And, fourthly, a series of detailed footnotes which cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues that the text inspires. The ?rst three of these parts can each be read by itself with some pro?t, although they are related and do form a conceptual whole.
Author | : Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451678193 |
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
Author | : Zecharia Sitchin |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0380770717 |
Offers evidence that visitors from outer space helped usher in humankind's first new age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment.
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Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
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Author | : American Philosophical Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
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