John Buridan On Self Reference

Author : John Buridan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521240864
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Buridan on Self-Reference written by John Buridan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buridan was a fourteenth-century philosopher who enjoyed an enormous reputation for about two hundred years, was then totally neglected, and is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians. Buridan also moves on from these problems to more general questions about the nature of propositions, the criteria of their truth and falsity and the concepts of validity and knowledge. This edition of that chapter is intended to make Buridan's ideas and arguments accessible to a wider range of readers. The volume should interest many philosophers, linguists and logicians, who are increasingly finding in medieval work striking anticipations of their own concerns.

Author : John Buridan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521288644
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Buridan on Self-Reference written by John Buridan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buridan was a fourteenth-century philosopher who enjoyed an enormous reputation for about two hundred years, was then totally neglected, and is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians. Buridan also moves on from these problems to more general questions about the nature of propositions, the criteria of their truth and falsity and the concepts of validity and knowledge. This edition of that chapter is intended to make Buridan's ideas and arguments accessible to a wider range of readers. The volume should interest many philosophers, linguists and logicians, who are increasingly finding in medieval work striking anticipations of their own concerns.

Author : Jean Buridan
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521288644
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Buridan on Self-Reference written by Jean Buridan and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians.

Author : S.J. Bartlett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940093551X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Reference written by S.J. Bartlett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319517635
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others written by Gyula Klima and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan. It serves as a companion to the Latin text edition and annotated English translation of his question-commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul. The contributors survey Buridan’s work both in its own historical-theoretical context and in relation to contemporary issues. The essays come in three main sections, which correspond to the three books of Buridan’s Questions. Coverage first deals with the classification of the science of the soul within the system of Aristotelian sciences, and surveys the main issues within it. The next section examines the metaphysics of the soul. It considers Buridan’s peculiar version of Aristotelian hylomorphism in dealing with the problem of what kind of entity the soul (in particular, the human soul) is, and what powers and actions it has, on the basis of which we can approach the question of its essence. The volume concludes with a look at Buridan’s doctrine of the nature and functions of the human intellect. Coverage in this section includes the problem of self-knowledge in Buridan’s theory, Buridan’s answer to the traditional medieval problem concerning the primary object of the intellect, and his unique treatment of logical problems in psychological contexts.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195176227
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Buridan written by Gyula Klima and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of the philosopher John Buridan. Klima argues that many of Buridan's academic concerns are strikingly similar to those of modern philosophy and his work sometimes quite directly addresses modern philosophical questions.

Author : Calvin G. Normore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031536665
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounding in Medieval Philosophy written by Calvin G. Normore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400952899
Total Pages : 385 pages
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Download or read book Jean Buridan’s Logic written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians, sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works, for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to problems of concern to analytic philosophers today. But his idiom is unfamiliar, so editions and trans lations alone will not bridge the gap of centuries. I have tried to make Buridan accessible to philosophers and logicians today by the introduc tory essay, in which I survey Buridan's philosophy of logic. Several problems which Buridan touches on only marginally in the works trans lated herein are developed and discussed, citing other works of Buridan; some topics which he treats at length in the translated works, such as the semantic theory of oblique terms, I have touched on lightly or not at all. Such distortions are inevitable, and I hope that the idiosyncracies of my choice of philosophically relevant topics will not blind the reader to other topics of value Buridan considers. My goal in translating has been to produce an accurate renaering of the Latin. Often Buridan will couch a logical rule in terms of the grammatical form of a sentence, and I have endeavored to keep the translation consistent. Some strained phrases result, such as "A man I know" having a different logic from "I know a man. " This awkwardness cannot always be avoided, and I beg the reader's indulgence. All of the translations here are my own.

Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134461836
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Philosophy written by John Marenbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to include recent research in the field, this exploration of medieval philosophy looks at the subject’s history, techniques and concepts. Discussing the main writers and ideas, it is the standard companion for all students of the discipline.

Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209728X
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.