Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Language

Die Studie ist am Schnittpunkt von Geschichts-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften angesiedelt und behandelt die Jahre 1893-1933. Anhand einschlagiger Alltagsquellen werden liberaljudische, zionistische und antisemitische Einstellungen zu Sprache generell sowie zu den Einzelsprachen Deutsch, Jiddisch und Hebraisch im diskursiven Spannungsfeld von Angriff und Apologie untersucht
Ausgehend von der Fragestellung, von welchen sprachphilosophischen, politisch-nationalen oder biologistischen Konzepten und Konstrukten diese Topoi beeinflusst wurden, zeigt sich das deutsch-judische Verhaltnis als...

What is knowledge? How do we achieve it? Why is it worth striving for? Is knowledge possible at all? Starting from these traditional questions about the nature, source, and value of knowledge, as well as its possibility and limits, the author investigates the most important positions in current epistemology. She then defends her own approach which meets the requirements of epistemology and philosophy of language with regard to a philosophically satisfying conception of knowledge.

Das Buch zeigt, inwiefern nicht, wie man ublicherweise sagt, die Arithmetik, Logik und Mengenlehre, sondern die Geometrie die Konigin der Mathematik ist, weil namlich die oft verponte Anschauung allen ihren Axiomatisierungen und Anwendungen zugrunde liegt, und zwar in der Form eines diagrammtheoretischen Strukturmodells. Dessen Punkte, Geraden und Ebenen sind selbst immer schon raumlose Teilformen idealer Formen. Zu den 'reellen Zahlen' als reine Groenproportionen gelangt man durch Ausweitung des Punktbereiches zunachst uber den Fundamentalsatz der Algebra. Aber erst Cantors Naive...

Every philosophical involvement with language centres on the notion of representation. There is controversy over what language represents. The answers can be classified and used as a basis for a systematic survey:

1. Language represents the world.
2. Language does not represent the world but our ideas of the world.
3. Language represents our ideas (of the world) badly.
4. Language not only represents badly; it does not represent anything.
5. Without language there would be no representation of a higher order and thus no thought.

The main intention behind this...

Ordinary language and scientific discourse are filled with linguistic expressions for dispositional properties such as "soluble," "elastic," "reliable," and "humorous." We characterize objects in all domains - physical objects as well as human persons - with the help of dispositional expressions. Hence, the concept of a disposition has historically and systematically played a central role in different areas of philosophy ranging from metaphysics to ethics.

The contributions of this volume analyze the ancient foundations of the discussion about disposition, examine the problem of...

Philosophy of
Language
provides students with an accessible yet detailed introduction to the major
issues and thinkers in the subject. Ideal for use on undergraduate courses, but
also of value for postgraduate students, the structure and content of this
textbook closely reflect the way the philosophy of language is taught and
studied.

Thematically structured, the book introduces the work of leading thinkers who
have contributed to the discipline, including Frege, Russell, Strawson, Grice,
Quine, Davidson and Lewis. The author examines key...

Over the past few decades, the reception of Wittgenstein's work has focused primarily on the central role that rules play in constituting a practice. Wittgenstein himself, however, always emphasises that a practice not only has rules, but also a "Witz" (i.e., a point). He even maintains that, "the problem of philosophy is the problem of Witz." Despite Wittgenstein's insistance on this matter, no systematic study has yet done full justice to the significance of Witz in Wittgenstein's philosophy. By considering both the role of rules and Witz, the present study casts a new light...