Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda

ISBN-13: 9789401061223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 388 str.

Francesco Orilia;W.J. Rapaport

Opis

The late Hector-Neri Castaneda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of Nous, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributions, including guise theory, the theory on indicators and quasi-indicators, and the proposition/practition theory. This volume collects 15 papers - for the most part previously unpublished - in ontology, philosophy of language, cognitive science and related areas by ex-students of Professor Castaneda, most of whom are now well-known researchers or even distinguished scholars. The authors share the conviction that Castaneda's work must continue to be explored and that his philosophical methodology must continue to be applied in an effort to further illuminate all the issues that he so deeply investigated. The topics covered by the contributions include intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. An introduction by the editors relates all these themes to Castaneda's philosophical interests and methodology."

Spis treści

I: Preface. Thought, Language, and Ontology: An Introduction; F. Orilia, W.J. Rapaport. II: Guise Theory and Other Ontological Frameworks. 1. The Grammar of Belief; M. McKinsey. 2. Actualism and Quantification; J.E. Tomberlin. 3. Guise Theory, Property Theory, and Castañeda's Philosophical Methodology; F. Orilia. 4. Russell's Intensional Logic of Propositions: A Resurrection of Logicism? G. Landini. 5. In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of Experience; M. Pendlebury. 6. Existentialist Themes; L.H. Powers. 7. On the Metaphysical Distinction between Processes and Events; K. Gill. 8. Possible Worlds without Possibilia; D. Nute. 9. A Role for Conceptual Role Semantics; J.C. Maloney. III: Indicators and Quasi-Indicators. 10. On Depicting Indexical Reference; T. Kapitan. 11. She*: Pragmatically Imparted or Semantically Encoded? E. Corazza. 12. Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports; W.J. Rapaport, et al. IV: Ontology and the History of Philosophy. 13. Relations in Plato's Phaedo; P. Jetli. 14. Leibniz's Spark of Kant's Great Light: An Application of Castañeda's Darwinian Approach to the History of Philosophy; R.J. Gomez. 15. Peirce's Evolutionary Idea of Evolution; A.H. Marostica. V: Appendix. A. Philosophical Bibliography of Hector-Neri Castañeda (1991-1999); T. Kapitan. B. Report on the Castañeda Nachlaß; T. Kapitan. C. Prolegomena toa Study of Hector-Neri Castañeda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and personal Reflections; W.J. Rapaport. D. Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri Castañeda; W.J. Rapaport. Index.