VOLUME 10 • 2011
BOOK REVIEWS
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline G.W.F. Hegel Klaus Brinkmann (Boston University)Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University), (editors) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 358 pp. Hardback 978-0-521-82914-4 Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account W..
LANGUAGE AS A SOCIAL ENTITY
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of the function of the majority of conventional language forms, the meaningfulness of human behavior, the content of an Intentional state, and the successful performance of an intentional action. The mainstay of the paper is form..
SENSUALITY, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE DA VINCI CODE
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of Brown’s claims about early Christian documents, Jesus’s divine nature, and the core of Christian ethics. These findings highlight the importance of examining the historical truth about Jesus. pp. 169–174 Keywords: The Da Vinci Code, ea..
THE LANGUAGE OF JOURNALISM ETHICS
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on participation in global ethics discourses, ethical claims of the mainstream media, today’s portable communication technology, journalism codes of ethics, and ethical differences between print and broadcast media. The goal of the present study is to determin..
WITTGENSTEIN’S ATTITUDE TOWARD LANGUAGE AS MUSIC
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s philosophical views on music. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the concept of musical expression, and on music as a means of emphasizing the role of ‘feeling’ in prop..
THE MODES OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: CHRISTIANITY’S CONTEMPORARY STATUS
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of Christianity as a missionary religion, the practices of the Christian community, and the substance of Christian ideology. The literature on Christian under- standing of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the process..
LESZEK NOWAK AND THE IDEALIZATIONAL APPROACH TO SCIENCE
ABSTRACT. There’s an essential methodological and theoretical difference between abstraction and idealization hardly remarked by the main founder of the so-called Poznań School, that’s to say the Polish philosopher Leszek Nowak (1943–2009). Nonetheless, Idealizational theory of science has never bee..
A TOKEN-BASED SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF MCTAGGART’S PARADOX
ABSTRACT. In his famous argument for the unreality of time, McTaggart claims that i) being past, being present, and being future are incompatible properties of an event, yet ii) every event admits all these three properties. In this paper, I examine two key concepts involved in the formulation of i)..
HOW THE METAPHYSICAL NEED (“METAPHYSISCHES BEDÜRFNIS”) OUTLASTED REDUCTIONISM • ON A METHODICAL CONTROVERSY BETWEEN LIFE PHILOSOPHY (“LEBENSPHILOSOPHIE”) AND LIFE SCIENCES IN 19TH CENTURY GERMANY
ABSTRACT. The paper analyzes how the evolution of the 19th century life sciences was adopted and reflected by the contemporary philosophy. As the paper shows, there have been manifold (and nowadays very little known) connections between life sciences and philosophy. In the spotlight of this very con..
LANGUAGE, VORSTELLUNG, AND MEANING AS USE
ABSTRACT. The paper focuses on the tension between Wittgenstein’s “meaning as use” and his ubiquitous use of Vorstellung in the PI. My argument opens with a rough sketch of a theory of natural language in which Vorstellung, defined as variation of perception, plays a prominent part. I then address t..
CONSTRAINING THE TIME WHEN LANGUAGE EVOLVED
ABSTRACT. The precise timing of the emergence of language in human prehistory cannot be resolved. But the available evidence is sufficient to constrain it to some degree. This is a review and synthesis of the available evidence, leading to the conclusion that the time when speech in some form became..
SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTS
ABSTRACT. This paper aims to provide support for the view that individual concepts are basic to natural language semantics. First, the use of constant individual concepts allows us to maintain Kripke’s view of proper names as nondescriptional rigid designators in the face of problems created by so-c..