Sentences with phrase «in philosophy of language»

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His Cambridge dissertation brought together issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, which led to two books Assertion and Conditionals (1985, Cambridge University Press) and For Truth in Semantics (1986, Basil Blackwell).

The use of words as a source for painting springs from Bochner's interest in the philosophy of language on the one hand, and popular culture and humor on the other.

As well as winning an Olympic silver medal and two World Championship bronze medals, Acer also received a first class degree in Physics and Philosophy and completed a doctorate in the philosophy of language.

For seven years he took part in the work of the Congress, not without seeking relief from his diplomatic duties in extensive studies in the philosophy of language, which moved more and more to the center of his interests.

In philosophy of language, issues of direct reference and token - identification would have interesting repercussions applied to prehension and the formal and objective existence of actual entities.

Not exact matches

In fact, according to a refreshing recent Quartz article by Oxford University professor William MacAskill and his partner, PhD philosophy student Amanda MacAskill, lots of common «mistakes» language snobs like to lord over the common man aren't even mistakes at all, including these:

Many scholars are convinced that Peter was not the author of 1 Peter because the author had to have a formal education in rhetoric / philosophy and an advanced knowledge of the Greek language.

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

The task is not easy, because the atheistic explanations can not exactly be disproved («falsified», in the language of the fashionable philosophy of science).

I suppose I could say MLK represented an awful philosophy because of Sharpton and Jackson both caught in dishonorable and criminal behaviors using racist language.

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speaIn doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speain contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

I would concur with the above suggestions, but I would reduce the three points to one: the development of a philosophy of language in the context of an evolving universe.

Suffice it to say that much interesting work could be done in connecting Whitehead's concepts to more current topics of discussion in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

8We grant that Whitehead's language in this passage, «The two kinds of fluency», is puzzling with respect to the philosophy of time.

The Holy Spirit teaches us all things; we speak of the things that the Spirit brings; truth reduced to language and writing (again); we continue to remind one another (in speech, script & action); meanwhile philosophy makes claim upon the derivatives, often assuming even to authorship.

Certainly one of the reasons for the neglect of both thinkers among English language philosophers has been that they have not played the role which Russell and Wittgenstein did in generating so - called analytical philosophy (a philosophical style inimical, upon the whole, to attempts to theorize about the nature of the universe in general.

The Church decided its teachings, mainly through its Councils, in terms of dogmatic definitions, expressed in the language of the accepted Greek philosophy of the times.

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»

What process theologians are attempting to do is essentially the same as what Augustine and Thomas did: to express their Christian faith in the conceptual language of a philosophy that makes sense to their age.

«In spite of certain changes in mood and language, the core of the philosophy developed by the young Marx was never changed and it is impossible to understand his concept of socialism and his criticism of capitalism as developed in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man which he developed in his early writings»In spite of certain changes in mood and language, the core of the philosophy developed by the young Marx was never changed and it is impossible to understand his concept of socialism and his criticism of capitalism as developed in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man which he developed in his early writings»in mood and language, the core of the philosophy developed by the young Marx was never changed and it is impossible to understand his concept of socialism and his criticism of capitalism as developed in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man which he developed in his early writings»in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man which he developed in his early writings»in his early writings».

In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of GoIn «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of Goin nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.

While his philosophical views would seem to underwrite a notion of privacy and seclusion, there is no more public figure to be found in contemporary English - language philosophy.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

In an extraordinary essay, «Colors, Cultures, and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standardIn an extraordinary essay, «Colors, Cultures, and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standardin The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standards.

The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.

Given the history of western philosophy, words have been thought to be not simply the most appropriate language for theology, but the only language in which communication is possible.

Does myth express a timeless philosophy of human life, or is it a real event of salvation history (e.g. the event of the resurrection), an event to which faith knows itself to be related, and to which it bears witness in the language of mythology?

Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.

I did, however, waste (Oops, spend) 4 years of my life and parents money majoring in philosophy / religion with a minor in biblical languages.

At least in the earlier decades of the twentieth century the split between theology and philosophy, the problem of hermeneutics and the problem of language, emerging from christological historical thinking, seemed a fair price to pay for protecting the uniqueness of the theological subject.

Dean suggests that American religious empiricists may have lapsed into objectivism at times, but a third position of speculative and radically empirical realism, a religious historicism, holds up well in the current forces of deconstructionism, neopragmatism, and language philosophy.

In another closely related picture, Christ is the Word of God, God's address to man, the communication of God's thought, the mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioIn another closely related picture, Christ is the Word of God, God's address to man, the communication of God's thought, the mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin the rational creation.

At the same time the questioning of the language and indeed of the reality of God was central to the study of religious philosophy in most British universities.

In more advanced education at the university level, there must necessarily be specialization — in one of the sciences, in literature, in philosophy, in the languages, and in much elsIn more advanced education at the university level, there must necessarily be specialization — in one of the sciences, in literature, in philosophy, in the languages, and in much elsin one of the sciences, in literature, in philosophy, in the languages, and in much elsin literature, in philosophy, in the languages, and in much elsin philosophy, in the languages, and in much elsin the languages, and in much elsin much else.

Philosophy has aided theology a good deal within this century in helping it to examine its own language critically, and there is still an important place for philosophizing about the nature of religious experience, and the reality of religious truth.

Analytic philosophy typically assumes that religious language is meaningful only if it makes universally valid statements about matters of fact in the form of propositions.

Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics rather than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.

These concerns force philosophers to explore both the manner in which philosophy uses language and the impossibility of escaping the abstractive, interested, and contextual nature of language and its interpretive play.

Just as Buber's understanding of law goes hand in hand with his philosophy of language, so Buber's emphasis on transformation through dialogue marks his views of culture and politics, both in Germany before the Holocaust and in Israel after it.

This recognition of the limits of both philosophy and language is also evident in Whitehead's philosophy.

Hartshorne has expressed a similar philosophy very much in traditional Aristotelian terms, for example in his use of the language of perceptual relatedness for Whitehead's prehension.

The importance of language to Whitehead's philosophy is most clear in the final sentence of lecture two, entitled «Expression»: «The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls» (MT 41).

It is the latter that emerges as a central interest of Whitehead's empirical philosophy, leading him to explore the role of language in both the construction and expression of experience.

In Derrida's case, this issue plays itself out in the realm of language and philosophIn Derrida's case, this issue plays itself out in the realm of language and philosophin the realm of language and philosophy.

Thus, Whitehead recognizes the dilemma of philosophers who must use language to express their philosophies, but can not escape the biases and interests inherent in their language.

His subject, as one might expect, was theology and the philosophy of science, and he argued that the biblical concept of the Holy spirit may provide the missing link, so to speak, in the controversy over whether mind or language has precedence in the creation of human thought.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in generaIn the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in generain general.

Lest it seem as though I would subordinate religious to metaphysical language, thereby reinforcing the Western rationalistic critique of religion, I hasten to point out that in Hinduism, philosophy never developed in opposition to religion; the philosophical critique of energy that never ceases to preoccupy Western culture could not arise in a culture like Hinduism, where the language about the gods — what we call mythology — was never denied its rightful place in the scheme of things.