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The logical alien : Conant and his critics /

Are there forms of thought which are alien to us, but home to others? Is our form of thought just one among many? Or is it (in essentials) the form of thought per se? Are such questions even sensible? Descartes, Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, among many, were exercised by such questions. Frege, and then...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miguens, Sofia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to part I: basic necessities (or: the shape of thought) / Charles Travis and Sofia Miguens
  • The search for logically alien thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus / James Conant
  • What Descartes ought to have thought about modality / A.W. Moore
  • Kant on logic and the laws of the understanding / Matthew Boyle
  • Cartesian skepticism, Kantian skepticism, and two conceptions of self-consciousness / Arata Hamawaki
  • Logical aliens and the "ground" of logical necessity / Barry Stroud
  • Varieties of alien thought / Peter Sullivan
  • Wittgenstein on using language and playin gchess: the breakdown of an analogy and its consequences / Martin Gustafsson
  • Where words fail / Charles Travis
  • Alien meaning and alienated meaning / Jocelyn Benoist
  • Introduction to part II: on how history of philosophy can be illuminating / Sofia Miguens