VOLUME 6 • 2007
VICO, WITTGENSTEIN, BAKHTIN AND THE BACKGROUND:
ABSTRACT. To live within a community which one senses as being one's own, as 'mine' as well as 'yours', as 'ours' rather than 'theirs', a community both to which and for which one feels answerable, one must be more than just a routine participant in it; one must in a real sense also be able to play ..
ONTOLOGY AS SINLOSS
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates Russell's logical atomist views on the nature of ontology and compares them with those of Wittgenstein, Carnap and Quine. It is argued that although Russell rejected Wittgenstein's Doctrine of Showing his conception of philosophy as an eliminativistic analysis provi..
WITTGENSTEIN AND PHILOSOPHY AS THERAPY
ABSTRACT. For Wittgenstein when we see a problem clearly or with clarity the problem disappears. This suggests that the process of philosophical is akin to certain kinds of therapy that which brings us relief from an incessant questioning, but only through a patient and painstaking process of lingui..
META-ETHICS AND ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FROM WITTGENSTEIN TO DEONTIC LOGIC SYSTEMS
ABSTRACT. In this paper, partly historical and partly theoretical, after having shorting outlined the development of meta-ethics in the 1900's, starting from Wittgenstein's Tractatus, I argued it is possible to sustain that emotivism and intuitionism are unsatisfactory ethical conceptions, while, on..
WITTGENSTEIN AS DAVIDSON ON METAPHOR
ABSTRACT. This essay has five parts: First, I explain some fundamental agreements between Davidson and Wittgenstein. I argue that Donald Davidson's views and Wittgenstein's views in the Investigations arise from some of the same fundamental insights. Second, I discuss Davidson's account of metaphor ..
THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL REALITY
ABSTRACT. Deuze argues that the ensemble of technological and organizational attributes is a bit clearer to observe and define than the institutional structures of convergent news media. Harcup and O'Neill think that the involvement of an elite organization may generate news coverage of an event tha..
REASONS AND RATIONALITY IN GRICE'S THEORY OF MEANING
ABSTRACT. Davies writes that the use of the word "cooperative" seems to lead to a confusion between Grice's technical notion and the general meaning associated with the lexeme cooperation. Bach stresses that standardization is different not only from what Grice called "particularized" conversational..
HEIDEGGER AND THE ONTOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF INTENTIONALITY
ABSTRACT. As Heidegger puts it, the "world" unfolds as a set of possibilities that can be explored and nature becomes a set of potentialities that can be utilized for human ends. Dix uses Heidegger's phenomenology to say that man is naturally predisposed towards falling, thus creating an inauthentic..
GRICE ON MEANING AND USE
ABSTRACT. Grice aims to determine how any distinction between meaning and use is to be drawn, and where lie the limits of its philosophical utility. Grice states that the question about the distinction between natural and non-natural meaning is what people are getting at when they display an interes..
MULTIMEDIA LOGIC AND NEWS COMPREHENSION
ABSTRACT. Herman and Chomsky affirm that the mass media are not a solid monolith on all issues. Inoue and Kawakami point out that television news viewing is an important factor for receiving news events faster regardless of news category. Thompson et al. say that news stories that focus on gangs hav..
SIMULTANEITATE COSMICA
ABSTRACT. Einstein gave good, but not compelling grounds for supposing that the concept of absolute simultaneity would have no application in a universe empty of matter and so governed entirely by the laws of Special Relativity. There is absolute simultaneity in our homogeneous and isotropic univers..
FACTS AND WORLD
ABSTRACT. An identity theory of truth takes a proposition to be true if and only if it is identical with a fact. Although facts are constituted by senses they are still, according to McDowell, occupants of the world. This is possible, simply because the world is a whole of conceptual contents. The c..