Ist Philosophie lehrbar? Jonas Pfister versucht es. Er skizziert Antworten auf die groen Fragen der Philosophie in knapper und verstndlicher Weise: Antworten auf die Fragen nach Glck, Freiheit, Gott, die Existenz einer Auenwelt, Erkenntnis, Geist, Gerechtigkeit, Ethik, Bedeutung, Wissenschaft und Kunst.
Ist Philosophie lehrbar? Jonas Pfister versucht es. Er skizziert Antworten auf die groen Fragen der Philosophie in knapper und verstndlicher Weise: An...
The book develops the metaphysics of meaning along the lines set up by Paul Grice, defining the three central notions of what is meant, said and implicated. The Gricean notion of what is said is threatened by semantic underdetermination: If the sentence underdetermines the thought it is used to express, what is said cannot be the proposition expressed by the sentence and meant by the speaker. This leads to a number of questions: How far does semantic underdetermination reach? Do we have to extend or restrict the Gricean notion? Is what is said semantic or pragmatic? Keeping these...
The book develops the metaphysics of meaning along the lines set up by Paul Grice, defining the three central notions of what is meant, said and im...
