The book contains studies in ontology and analysis that focus on the 'revolt against idealism' of Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein in the early part of the 20th century and the resulting development of analytic philosophy and revival of realism.
Belief and Meaning have often been thought to be intimately related. Typically, there is a correlation between the meaning of a sentence which is uttered and the content of the attitude that the speaker thereby conveys. This is also why the sentence can be used to specify this content in an attribution of the attitude to the speaker.
The 'Philosophical Research' Series aims to present work by authors who conceive of philosophy as a co-operative scientific enterprise.
Monistic intuitions or doctrines are grounded in many different ways of philosophising. This book attempts to discuss some of the aspects of monism - historically and systematically.
Takes a look at the metaphysics and logic of possibility and reality, and illuminates them from a variety of perspectives. This collection features topics which include the history of philosophy as well as the semantics of possible worlds; logic, mathematics and computer science as well as literature and the media.
The papers in the present volume were collected by Bergmann under the title Logic and Reality which indicates the theme of an ontological foundation for logic or of an ontological analysis of analyticity.
A collection of essays that are concerned with the metaphysics of persons and the criteria of personal identity. The essays in this book also discuss problems of the theory of action and of practical philosophy.
Includes: The Ontological Status of Truthmakers. An Alternative to Tactarianism and Metaphysical Anti-Realism; Gegenstande in der Zeit; Statues and there Constituens. Whether Constitution is Identity; Eigenschaften von Komplexen. Ein Beitrag zur angewandten Ontologie; Is Salta's Individuation of Intensional Entities Circular? and more.
Proces et realite (1929) d'A N Whitehead (1861-1947) est sans doute l'ouvrage le plus important pour saisir le sens et la portee de la pensee du processus.