Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the...

Speakers can get to know the meaning of any of indefinitely many sentences that they have never heard before. This statement encapsulates the problem of linguistic creativity, which lies at the core of philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. It has also sparked off a considerable amount of work on the philosophy of mind.
After establishing the failure of the familiar compositional approach to the problem, the book adopts a radically new start. It develops core elements of the later Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy, putting them to work todissolve' the problem, proving...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Physik - Sonstiges, Note: 2, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (Institut fur Angewandte Physik), Veranstaltung: Nanotechnologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit war, das Kohlenstoffnanorohrenwachstum im elektrischen Feld zu untersuchen und gezielt in einer CVD-Anlage zu steuern. Der Feldverlauf zwischen den Elektroden wurde auf unterschiedlichen Substraten simuliert. Daraufhin wurde eine passende Struktur hergestellt, die es ermoglichte, mit Hilfe einer Spannungsquelle ein elektrisches Feld anzulegen, um...

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the...