VOLUME 7 • 2008
WITTGENSTEIN AND SUBJECTIVITY: PICTURES OF THE SELF
ABSTRACT. In this article, I focus on Wittgenstein's view of self-understanding as a necessary part of the attempt to live an ethical or responsible life especially focused on his description of our use of pictures in this regard. Wittgenstein shows how we construct and use pictures to highlight or ..
IDEALISM AND REALISM IN EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY – WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS
ABSTRACT. Much has been made of the 'Transcendental Idealism' in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, particularly the influence of Schopenhauer on Wittgenstein's remarks on solipsism. It has even been suggested that Wittgenstein's commitment to idealism survives into his later work. The p..
HEIDEGGER AND THE ESSENCE OF DASEIN
ABSTRACT. Kamal explains how Heidegger's analysis of human existence (Dasein) opens a new horizon for understanding human reality and how this analysis becomes a total rejection of a Cartesian theory of self-substance. Esfeld writes that, for Heidegger, being-in-the-world includes both being at thin..
GRAMMAR, LOGIC, AND SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION
ABSTRACT. Sowa asserts that context and background knowledge are important, since most sentences cannot be understood in isolation. Carnap makes an analogous distinction between descriptive and pure syntax: descriptive syntax is an empirical investigation of the syntactical features of given languag..
WORD MEANING, LINGUISTIC FORMS, AND THE SEMANTIC CONCEPTION OF TRUTH
ABSTRACT. Russell claims that the concept which occurs in the verbal noun is the very same as that which occurs as verb. Bloomfield defines the meaning of a linguistic form as the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response which it calls forth in the hearer. Blackburn writes that ther..
FRENCH AS A LANGUAGE OF ADMINISTRATION
ABSTRACT. Since 1500 the influence of Latin began to wane and people began to write administrative documents in their own dialect rather than in Latin. Carter holds that in the decades immediately following the Norman conquest, French was not used as the language of law. French became the language o..
NARRATION AND SUBJECTIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LITERATURE
ABSTRACT. As Veivo puts it, the city was a central theme in modern French literature (characterized from Baudelaire to Verhaeren and beyond by the figures of le flâneur and la foule). Bourdieu asks us to beware of constituting the first signs of the institutionalizing of the writer's person as the i..
TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC REDEFINED
ABSTRACT. Traditionally transcendental logic has been set apart from formal logic. Transcendental logic had to deal with the conditions of possibility of judgements, which were presupposed by formal logic. Defined as a purely philosophical enterprise transcendental logic was considered as being a pr..
MERLEAU-PONTY, WHITEHEAD, AND THE POLITICS OF NATURE
ABSTRACT. This essay takes its cue from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discussion of Alfred North Whitehead in his Collège de France course on the concept of nature in order to delve into the roots of the contemporary invocation of the philosophy of nature. It explores Merleau-Ponty's critique of an 'immat..
GOD, REALITY AND THE REALISM/ANTIREALISM DEBATE
ABSTRACT. It is almost self-evident for many people that one has to be a metaphysical realist in order to be a religious believer. Most of the debates on religious realism and religious antirealism are focusing upon the claim that truth is correspondence between a description and independently exist..
EXISTENTA NECESARA A LUI DUMNEZEU
ABSTRACT. It follows not merely from general philosophical considerations, but from the very nature of Theism itself, that God is not a logically necessary being. The claim that God exists necessarily may be read in either or two ways - either as saying "there is a divine being" expresses a necessar..
APOCALYPTIC THINKING NOW: THE ENDS OF POSTMODERNISM
ABSTRACT. "Postmodernism", like a host of other similar terms christened with the same prefix, such as "Post-Impressionism" and "Post-Expressionism", employs a reactive rhetorical device or strategy, betraying what I call a "naming anxiety". Postmodernism gets a bad press. It is attacked from all si..