Language Thought And Falsehood In Ancient Greek Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Denyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134870337
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy written by Nicholas Denyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1991, sets forth the assumptions about thought and language that made falsehood seem so problematic to Plato and his contemporaries, and expounds the solution that Plato finally reached in the Sophist. Free from untranslated Greek, the book is accessible to all studying ancient Greek philosophy. As a well-documented case study of a definitive advance in logic, metaphysics and epistemology, the book will also appeal to philosophers generally.

Author : Kevin Robb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Thought in Early Greek Philosophy written by Kevin Robb and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925114
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Parmenides written by Samuel Scolnicov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.

Author : Max Cresswell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138686489
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logics and Languages written by Max Cresswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book shows that methods developed for the semantics of systems of formal logic can be successfully applied to problems about the semantics of natural languages; and, moreover, that such methods can take account of features of natural language which have often been thought incapable of formal treatment, such as vagueness, context dependence and metaphorical meaning. Parts 1 and 2 set out a class of formal languages and their semantics. Parts 3 and 4 show that these formal languages are rich enought to be used in the precise description of natural languages. Appendices describe some of the concepts discussed in the text.

Author : Elly Pirocacos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429862377
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Belief and the Meno Paradox written by Elly Pirocacos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, the philosophical concern of this book is epistemological in kind. It involves understanding the Socratic elentic method and how its structure introduces an important epistemological problem which is first raised in the "Meno" dialogue as a paradox. This paradox, named the Meno paradox, raises the problem of falsehood. Specifically the impossibility of falsehood. The "Theaetetus" dialogue is then analyzed in terms of how falsehood is there set up as a clearly epistemological problem. The "Sophist" dialogue is in turn discussed as offering a response to the problem of falsehood by revising it as a problem for semantics.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131552144X
Total Pages : 2864 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this set of 11 books, originally published between 1963 and 1991. Specific volumes cover the following: The relation between persuasion and truth criticism of linguistic philosophy, questions about the nature of thought and ontological questions in general.

Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400760043
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy written by Georgios Anagnostopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. They explore the concept of reason and the method of analysis and the central role they play in the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They engage with salient themes in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political theory, as well as tracing links between each thinker’s ideas on selected topics. The volume contains analyses of Plato’s Socrates, focusing on his views of moral psychology, the obligation to obey the law, the foundations of politics, justice and retribution, and Socratic virtue. On Plato’s Republic, the discussions cover the relationship between politics and philosophy, the primacy of reason over the soul’s non-rational capacities, the analogy of the city and the soul, and our responsibility for choosing how we live our own lives. The anthology also probes Plato’s analysis of logos (reason or language) which underlies his philosophy including the theory of forms. A quartet of reflections explores Aristotelian themes including the connections between knowledge and belief, the nature of essence and function, and his theories of virtue and grace. The volume concludes with an insightful intellectual memoir by David Keyt which charts the rise of analytic classical scholarship in the past century and along the way provides entertaining anecdotes involving major figures in modern academic philosophy. Blending academic authority with creative flair and demonstrating the continuing interest of ancient Greek philosophy, this book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all those studying and researching the origins of Western philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521634144
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato: Alcibiades written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern edition of Plato's Alcibiades, aimed at both students and scholars.

Author : Alex Barber
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080965017
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics written by Alex Barber and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of philosophy to language study, and language study to philosophy, has experienced demonstrable intellectual growth and diversification in recent decades. Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics comprehensively analyzes and evaluates many of the most interesting facets of this vibrant field. An edited collection of articles taken from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, this volume acts as a single-stop desk reference resource for the field, comprising contributions from the foremost scholars of philosophy of linguistics in their various interdisciplinary specializations. From Plato's Cratylus to Semantic and Epistemic Holism, this fascinating work authoritatively unpacks the diverse and multi-layered concepts of meaning, expression, identity, truth, and countless other themes and subjects straddling the linguistic-philosophical meridian, in 175 articles and over 900 pages. Authoritative review of this dynamic field placed in an interdisciplinary context Approximately 175 articles by leaders in the field Compact and affordable single-volume format

Author : Delia Graff Fara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415993105
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language written by Delia Graff Fara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements, and addressing contemporary research and enduring questions in the philosophy of language. Unique to this Companion is clear coverage of research from the related disciplines of formal logic and linguistics, and discussion of the applications in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind"--Publisher.