New Thinking about Propositions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Thinking about Propositions write by Jeffrey C. King. This book was released on 2014-01-10. New Thinking about Propositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to propositions—understood as the things we believe and say, and the things which are (primarily) true or false. There is, however, no widespread agreement about what sorts of things these entities are. In New Thinking about Propositions, Jeffrey C. King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks argue that commitment to propositions is indispensable, and that traditional accounts of propositions are inadequate. They each then defend their own views of the nature of propositions.
New Thinking about Propositions
New Thinking about Propositions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Thinking about Propositions write by Jeffrey C. King. This book was released on 2014. New Thinking about Propositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophy, science, and common sense all refer to propositions—things we believe and say, and things which are true or false. But there is no consensus on what sorts of things these entities are. Jeffrey C. King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks argue that commitment to propositions is indispensable, and each defend their own views on the debate.
New Essays on the Nature of Propositions
New Essays on the Nature of Propositions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Essays on the Nature of Propositions write by David Hunter. This book was released on 2017-10-02. New Essays on the Nature of Propositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Meaning, Expression and Thought
Meaning, Expression and Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meaning, Expression and Thought write by Wayne A. Davis. This book was released on 2003. Meaning, Expression and Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
Thinking and Being
Thinking and Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking and Being write by Irad Kimhi. This book was released on 2018-07-09. Thinking and Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought—those that explicate how we in fact think—must be distinguished from logical laws of thought—those that formulate and impose rational requirements on thinking. Logic does not describe how we actually think, but only how we should. Yet by thus sundering the logical from the psychological, Frege was unable to explain certain fundamental logical truths, most notably the psychological version of the law of non-contradiction—that one cannot think a thought and its negation simultaneously. Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being marks a radical break with Frege’s legacy in analytic philosophy, exposing the flaws of his approach and outlining a novel conception of judgment as a two-way capacity. In closing the gap that Frege opened, Kimhi shows that the two principles of non-contradiction—the ontological principle and the psychological principle—are in fact aspects of the very same capacity, differently manifested in thinking and being. As his argument progresses, Kimhi draws on the insights of historical figures such as Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein to develop highly original accounts of topics that are of central importance to logic and philosophy more generally. Self-consciousness, language, and logic are revealed to be but different sides of the same reality. Ultimately, Kimhi’s work elucidates the essential sameness of thinking and being that has exercised Western philosophy since its inception.
