VOLUME 6 • 2007
WITTGENSTEIN ON MEANING AND RULE-FOLLOWING
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following constitute an attack on the theory of meaning of the Tractatus, but the significance he places on it shows a salient continuity with his earlier work. Meaning is still seen as central to philosophical theorizing, and Wittgenstein's concern remains t..
INSIDE THE MOMENT OF THINKING AND SPEAKING:
ABSTRACT. In Wittgenstein's works, we begin to move away from the Cartesian mechanical world of dead forms and structures, and begin to find ourselves face to face with a wholly new horizon, a new world of life and of living events and processes. Nothing in it retains its old character. We now see t..
WITTGENSTEIN AND DECONSTRUCTION
ABSTRACT. Some commentators have interpreted Wittgenstein's philosophy as a form of deconstruction à la Derrida. I argue that Wittgenstein does indeed have aporetic moments, and Wittgentstein's rejection of a universal Weltbild and his semantic relativism make the thesis of a deconstructive Wittgens..
DID WITTGENSTEIN DISAGREE WITH HEIDEGGER?
ABSTRACT. My goal in this paper is to look at what Wittgenstein said about Heidegger. So little attention has been paid to this subject that his few recorded remarks on Heidegger have only recently all been translated into English. I will examine these remarks closely in what follows. I will also lo..
METAETHICAL SUBJECTIVISM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
ABSTRACT. Nichols states that no action is wrong simpliciter. Young advocates a holistic concept of freedom which is not merely defined negatively but which positively provides the preconditions for individuals to actively exercise their autonomy and to flourish as human beings in the process. Nagel..
RUSSELL ON PROPOSITION AND THE LOGICAL FORM
ABSTRACT. Russell writes that the logical form is just the same whether you believe a false or a true proposition; judgment involves the neutral fact, not the positive or negative fact. Russell points out that if an expression has a meaning, then there must be something which it means; being is a ge..
CONCEPTUAL SHIFTS IN THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT. Frege says that it may be granted that every grammaticality well-formed expression figuring as a proper name always has a sense. Leech states that language consists of grammar and pragmatics: grammar is an abstract formal system for producing and interpreting messages. Searle argues that t..
NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACE
ABSTRACT. Norton stresses that in ordinary Newtonian gravitation theory, one decomposes a free fall motion into two parts: an inertial trajectory and a deflection due the gravitational field. Krantz thinks that a version of Newtonian mechanics based on the present axiomatization of force measurement..
DEVELOPING A VIABLE PURPOSIVE PSYCHOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Koch claims that the rudiments of cognitive adventures, conscious thought, the more elaborated forms of scientific reflection, all seem to follow a special path of dynamic heuristics. Schuh explains that, traditionally, morphology at the macroscopic level has formed the basis for most reco..
DELEUZE, BAUDRILLARD, AND DERRIDA ON INTERPRETATION AND IMAGINATION
ABSTRACT. Deleuze says that whatever you will, will it in such a way that you also will its eternal return; there is no possible compromise between Hegel and Nietzsche (Nietzsche's philosophy forms an absolute anti-dialectics). Baudrillard stresses that we live by object time - we live at the pace o..
ASTRONOMICAL WASTE: THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF DELAYED TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT. With very advanced technology, a very large population of people living happy lives could be sustained in the accessible region of the universe. For every year that development of such technologies and colonization of the universe is delayed, there is therefore an opportunity cost: a poten..
CHOMSKY AND PRAGMATICS
ABSTRACT. Chomsky's research program of Generative Linguistics has had syntax in focus, but its conception of objectives, scientific methodology and philosophical foundations transcend syntax and lend themselves to interesting applications. Pragmatics is an area to which they have been applied. The ..