Pictures Images And Conceptual Change

Author : Joseph C. Pitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400984820
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change written by Joseph C. Pitt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. There are, needless to say, many ways to approach the issue. But, as I see it, the problem reduces to showing how present and future systems of thought are the rational extensions of prior ones. This goal may not be attainable. Kuhn, for example, suggests that change is mainly a function of socio-economic pressures (taken broadly). But there are some who believe that a case can be made for the rationality of change, especially in science. Wilfrid Sellars is one of those. While Sellars has developed a full account of the issues involved in solving the problem of conceptual change, he is also a very difficult philosopher to discuss. The difficulty stems from the fact that he is a philosopher in the very best sense of the word. First, he performs the tasks of analyzing alternative views with both finesse and insight, dialectically laying bare the essentials of problems and the inadequacies of previous proposals. Secondly, he is a systematic philosopher. That is, he is concerned to elaborate a system of philosophical thought in the grand tradition stretching from Plato to White head. Now with all of this to his credit, it would appear that there is no difficulty at all, one should simply treat him like all the others, if he indeed follows in the footsteps of past builders of philosophic systems.

Author : Joseph C Pitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400984837
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change written by Joseph C Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1981-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
ISBN 13 : 8497459334
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Revolutions written by Wenceslao J. González and published by Netbiblo. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ville Erkkilä
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161566912
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conceptual Change of Conscience written by Ville Erkkilä and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the drastic experiences of the turbulent twentieth century affect the works of a legal historian? What kind of an impact did they have on the ideas of justice and rule of law prominent in legal historiography? Ville Erkkila analyses the way in which the concepts of 'Rechtsgewissen' and 'Rechtsbewusstsein' evolved over time in the works of the prestigious legal historian Franz Wieacker. With the help of previously unavailable sources such as private correspondence, the author reveals how Franz Wieacker's personal experiences intertwined in his legal historiography with the tradition of legal science as well as the social and political destinies of twentieth century Germany.

Author : Elías J. Palti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009461230
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change written by Elías J. Palti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth century to the present, this book aims to prevent an anachronistic understanding of the texts of the past. Palti rejects the idea of conceptual change as a coherent process deriving from one single source. Instead, he offers a convincing explanation of converging developments emanating from three different sources: namely, the Cambridge school, the German school of conceptual history, or Begriffsgeschichte, and French politico-conceptual history. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change also closely examines the temporality of concepts, questioning how and why political languages mutate.

Author : Willem deVries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358157X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilfrid Sellars written by Willem deVries and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) has been called the most profound and systematic epistemological thinker of the twentieth century. Many of his ideas have become widely acknowledged, including his attack on the "myth of the given," his functionalist treatment of intentional states, his proposal that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts, and his suggestion that attributions of knowledge locate the knower "in the logical space of reasons." Notoriously difficult to understand, Sellars' essays are not only complex but were never situated within a unified exposition of his thought.. Willem deVries addresses these difficulties and provides a careful reading and remarkable overview of Sellars' systematic philosophy. This clear, comprehensive, and authoritative work will become the standard point of reference for all philosophers seeking to understand Sellars's hugely significant body of work.

Author : Willem A. DeVries
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317494113
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilfrid Sellars written by Willem A. DeVries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfrid Sellars (1912-89) has been called "the most profound and systematic epistemological thinker of the twentieth century" (Robert Brandom). He was in many respects ahead of his time, and many of his innovations have become widely acknowledged, for example, his attack on the "myth of the given", his functionalist treatment of intentional states, his proposal that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts, and his suggestion that attributions of knowledge locate the knower "in the logical space of reasons". However, while many philosophers have begun to acknowledge Sellars's inspiration in their work, their interpretation of his thought has not always been the most accurate. His writings are difficult. Individually, his essays are complex and sometimes rely on doctrines and arguments he put forward elsewhere. Each of his articles is deepened and strengthened by seeing it in its systematic context, but he never wrote a unified exposition of his system, which therefore has to be pieced together from numerous disparate sources. Willem deVries addresses these difficulties specifically and provides a careful reading and remarkable overview of Sellars's systematic philosophy that will become the standard point of reference for all philosophers seeking to understand Sellars's hugely significant body of work.

Author : David Barner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190611952
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change written by David Barner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and "democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitive state of human beings. Other concepts like "object," "cause," or "agent" may be present early in infancy--if not innately. Processes of change occur throughout our conceptual development, which prompts two key questions: Which human concepts constitute innate, core knowledge? How do humans acquire new concepts, and how do these concepts change in development? Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change provides a unique theoretical and empirical introduction to the study of conceptual development, documenting key advances in case studies, including ground-breaking science on human representations of language, objects, number, events, color, space, time, beliefs, and desires. Additionally, it explores how humans engage in moral reasoning and causal explanation: Are humans born good and tainted by an imperfect world, or do we need to teach children to be moral? Could a concept like "freedom" be woven into the human soul, or is it a historical invention, constructed over generations of humans? Written by an eminent list of contributors renowned in child development and cognitive science, this book delves widely, and deeply, into the cognitive tools available at birth that are repurposed, combined, and transformed to complex, abstract adult conceptual representations, and should be of interest to developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and students of cognitive science.

Author : Harold I. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134003617
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Systems written by Harold I. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how new concepts are entered into our systems along with sufficient continuity with older ideas to ensure understanding, this text highlights the different aspects that present an insightful view into the various theories of concepts.

Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521359788
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Innovation and Conceptual Change written by Terence Ball and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.