Philosophical Troubles

Philosophical Troubles
Author: Saul A. Kripke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199875618

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume. Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

Philosophical Papers 1913–1946

Philosophical Papers 1913–1946
Author: M. Neurath
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400969953

The philosophical writings of Otto Neurath, and their central themes, have been described many times, by Carnap in his authobiographical essay, by Ayer and Morris and Kraft decades ago, by Haller and Hegselmann and Nemeth and others in recent years. How extraordinary Neurath's insights were, even when they perhaps were more to be seen as conjectures, aperfus, philosophical hypotheses, tools to be taken up and used in the practical workshop of life; and how prescient he was. A few examples may be helpful: (1) Neurath's 1912 lecture on the conceptual critique of the idea of a pleasure maximum [ON 50] substantially anticipates the development of aspects of analytical ethics in mid-century. (2) Neurath's 1915 paper on alternative hypotheses, and systems of hypotheses, within the science of physical optics [ON 81] gives a lucid account of the historically-developed clashing theories of light, their un realized further possibilities, and the implied contingencies of theory survival in science, all within his framework that antedates not only the quite similar work of Kuhn so many years later but also of the Vienna Circle too. (3) Neurath's subsequent paper of 1916 investigates the inadequacies of various attempts to classify systems of hypotheses [ON 82, and this volume], and sets forth a pioneering conception of the metatheoretical task of scientific philosophy.

Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind

Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind
Author: G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1991-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0631133097

Anscombe on thought, experience, sensation, and the ethics of virtue Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe is one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures, the founder of consequentialism, and a leading mind in the field of virtue ethics. Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: The collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe, Volume 2, is part of a multivolume compilation of her life's work, providing insight into the mind of a groundbreaking 20th century philosopher. This volume's work explores memory, intentionality, causality and time, delving into the language, actions, and logic of perception, sensation, and more.

Philosophical Papers : Volume I

Philosophical Papers : Volume I
Author: David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1983-06-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198020422

The first volume of this series presents fifteen selected papers dealing with a variety of topics in ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

The Importance of What We Care About

The Importance of What We Care About
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1988-05-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521336116

A collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind, first published in 1988.