Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Language

Im Zentrum der Studie steht das Problem personaler Identitat. Die Diskussion insbesondere der angelsachsischen Gegenwartsphilosophie wird durch reduktionistische Ansatze dominiert, die psychologische Kontinuitat als Identitatskriterium benennen. Der Autor stellt diese Theorien in einen umfassenden historischen und systematischen Zusammenhang. Er schliet eine wesentliche Lucke der bisherigen Diskussion: Die Kriterienproblematik wird verbunden mit einer Untersuchung der Konstitutionsbedingungen von Personalitat. Entgegen vorschnellen Vereinfachungen fuhrt die Analyse zu dem Ergebnis, da die...

Das Buch enthalt die Einfuhrung in die Lekture sowie den Textkommentar zu den der Analyse der Grundsatze der Modalitat gewidmeten "Postulaten des empirischen Denkens uberhaupt." Untersucht wird Kants gesamte Theorie der Modalbegriffe (Moglichkeit - Unmoglichkeit, Dasein - Nichtsein, Notwendigkeit - Zufalligkeit) seit Mitte der 1750er Jahre bis zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Die Postulate sind nach Kant nicht objektiv, sondern subjektiv-synthetisch: Der Gegenstand der Erfahrung, welcher zunachst anhand der objektiv-synthetischen Funktionen der Quantitat, Qualitat und Relation...

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What sounds, on the surface, like criticism (e.g. of Shakespeare) can equally be understood as a simple registration of Wittgenstein's own reaction, hence a piece of self-diagnosis or self-analysis.

The book brings a representative sample of authors, from Shakespeare, Goethe, or Dostoyevsky to some that have received far less attention in Wittgenstein scholarship like Kleist, Lessing, or...

Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) ist bekannt als Autor des Anton Reiser und als Asthetiker der Klassik. Heute vergessen hingegen ist der Arbeitsbereich, der ihm neben seiner Beschaftigung mit dem Schonen der wichtigste war: seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Sprache.
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt Moritz als originellen Grammatiker und Sprachphilosophen vor dem Hintergrund der europaischen Geistesgeschichte. Und es beleuchtet, wie sich in den Sprachreflexionen diejenigen Denkfiguren entwickeln, die er spater seiner Asthetik zu Grunde legt: So wird das Theorem des "in sich selbst...

The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself. Their criticism is, in the epistemological regard, directed against introspectionism, and in the ontological regard, against an internalist and qualia-friendly, non-functionalist (or: broadly dualistic/idealistic) conception of the mind. The book examines this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle,...

The present volume investigates the legacy of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. These philosophers inspired both the development of analytic philosophy and various philosophical approaches to the study of language. They have influenced technical discussions on truth, proper names, definite descriptions, propositions and predication, sense and reference, truth, and philosophical and linguistic inquiries into the relations between language, mind and the world. The studies gathered in this volume discuss most of...

What is the relationship between perception and perceptual judgment? Does it involve sensual content that cannot be expressed verbally, or is it verbal structures that first allow us to recognize something? Both positions engender discomfort. In this systematically conceived examination grounded in the history of philosophy, Nolte uncovers the dogma underlying each of these positions and proposes alternatives.

This first of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The relation between language and the world was undoubtedly one if not the central issue in Wittgenstein's whole philosophical oeuvre. His one hundred and twentieth birthday provided an occasion for foregrounding this aspect of his work. A special workshop was dedicated to new aspects of Wittgenstein's Nachlass. In this volume Frank Cioffi, Peter Hacker, Ian Hacking, Roy Harris, Lars Hertzberg, Jaakko Hintikka, Marie McGinn, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Hans...

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion.

But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens...

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher, from his decision to become a doctor to his later work in psychiatry.

The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine. Central to the collection is the Danger of Words, the 1973 text described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Wittgensteinian book published by any of...

Philip Kitcher has deeply influenced many of the current debates in the philosophy of biology. He has also made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, to ethics, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mathematics, and, most recently, to pragmatism. This volume results from the 15th Munster Lectures in Philosophy. It contains an original article by Kitcher and eight critical papers on a wide range of topics.