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Fred Stoutland was a major figure in the philosophy of action and philosophy of language. This collection brings together essays on truth, language, action and mind and thus provides an important summary of many key themes in Stoutland's own work, as well as offering valuable perspectives on key issues in contemporary philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern --- Action. --- Donald Davidson. --- Fred Stoutland. --- Truth. --- Wittgenstein.
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In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such as truth, reference, and meaning--that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.
Meaning (Philosophy) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy. --- Alfred Tarski. --- Bertrand Russell. --- David Kaplan. --- David Lewis. --- Donald Davidson. --- Gottlob Frege. --- Robert Montague. --- Robert Stalnaker. --- Rudolf Carnap. --- Saul Kripke. --- analytic philosophy. --- assertion. --- counterfactual conditionals. --- formal language. --- implicature. --- language use. --- language. --- linguistic meaning. --- logic. --- mathematical logic. --- mathematics. --- meaning. --- metaphysics. --- natural languages. --- philosophical semantics. --- philosophy. --- possibility. --- possible worlds semantics. --- propositions. --- reference. --- semantics. --- semanticsаragmatics interface. --- truth-theoretic semantics. --- truth. --- world-states.
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Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is known as construction grammar. As construction grammar is use-based, it seems natural to suppose that its success is indirect support for use-based semantics in philosophy. This is true. But there's still a lot to do. Although there are use-based theories that fit quite well with current research in linguistics, they are far from being perfect. In particular, the most popular theory in that area is still tied to some of the main motivations behind truth-conditional semantics. 'Constructions in Use' offers an alternative by proposing to let this legacy go. Instead, it argues that philosophical semantics is best off if it goes for an entirely use-based theory. This series explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Cognitive Semantics. --- Compositionality. --- Construction Grammar. --- Constructionist Language Acquisition. --- Constructionist Primary Meaning. --- Cooperative Context. --- Die Struktur von Repräsentationen in Sprache, Kognition und Wissenschaft. --- Disposition. --- Donald Davidson. --- Framework. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Hana Filip. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Horwich. --- Intuitive Propositional Content. --- Knowledge Covary. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Linguistic-Philosophical Terminology. --- Literal Interface. --- Malapropisms. --- Meaning Liberalism. --- Meaning. --- Multimodality. --- Non-Literal Interface. --- Novelty. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Pragmatic. --- Primary Meaning. --- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. --- SFB 991. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Sonderforschungsbereich 991. --- The structure of representations in language, cognition and science. --- Theory of Meaning. --- Theory of Truth. --- Token. --- Tokening. --- Tomasellian Programme. --- Truth-conditional Semantics. --- Truth-conditional Theories of Meaning. --- U Equals. --- Usage-based Theory of Meaning.
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"An argument for using Donald Davidson's metaphysics for briding the growing divide between scientiific and humanistic understanding of religion"--
Religion --- Monism. --- Philosophy. --- Davidson, Donald, --- Philosophy --- Reality --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Pluralism --- Davidson, Donald --- religion --- religious --- psychology --- evolution --- mind --- science --- philosophy --- Donald Davidson --- anomalous monism --- metaphysics --- language --- linguistics --- science studies --- fiction --- celebrity --- celebrities --- surprise --- comedy --- Joe Rogan --- narrative --- narratives --- myth --- myths --- cognition --- cognitive science --- Judaism --- alien --- aliens --- communication --- information --- intimacy --- semantics --- animal --- animals --- animal communication --- life --- life sciences --- origin of life --- two cultures --- anthropomorphism --- agency --- explanation of religion --- science and religion --- meaning --- systems theory --- animism --- cosmology --- monism --- dualism --- nature --- naturalistic approach --- RELIGION / Philosophy --- SCIENCE / Cognitive Science --- PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
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This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry principles, conservation laws, and the principle of least action-causal constraints that serve to distinguish events and processes that our best scientific theories mandate or allow from those they rule out.Ben-Menahem's approach reveals that causation is just as relevant to explaining why certain events fail to occur as it is to explaining events that do occur. She investigates the conceptual differences between, and interrelations of, members of the causal family, thereby clarifying problems at the heart of the philosophy of science. Ben-Menahem argues that the distinction between determinism and stability is pertinent to the philosophy of history and the foundations of statistical mechanics, and that the interplay of determinism and locality is crucial for understanding quantum mechanics. Providing historical perspective, she traces the causal constraints of contemporary science to traditional intuitions about causation, and demonstrates how the teleological appearance of some constraints is explained away in current scientific theories such as quantum mechanics.Causation in Science represents a bold challenge to both causal eliminativism and causal reductionism-the notions that causation has no place in science and that higher-level causal claims are reducible to the causal claims of fundamental physics.
Causation. --- Science --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Causalità. --- Bertrand Russell. --- Curie's principle. --- Donald Davidson. --- Erwin Schrödinger. --- God. --- Heisenberg uncertainty relations. --- I. Pitowsky. --- Leonhard Euler. --- Pauli exclusion principle. --- Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. --- S. Popescu. --- causal constraints. --- causal eliminativism. --- causal family. --- causal reductionism. --- causal relations. --- causality. --- causation. --- causes. --- change. --- conservation laws. --- determinism. --- directionality. --- dynamics. --- emergence. --- entanglement. --- fate. --- gauge freedom. --- gauge theories. --- higher-level causation. --- higher-level eliminativism. --- indeterminism. --- instability. --- lawlessness. --- least action principle. --- locality. --- necessity. --- nonlocality. --- philosophy of mind. --- physical theories. --- physics. --- probability. --- quantum mechanics. --- reasons. --- reduction. --- science. --- stability. --- statistical mechanics. --- sufficient reason principle. --- symmetries. --- teleological thinking. --- teleology. --- variation principles.
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