Search results for "Philosophy of Language"
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Mostrar y decir. Una diferencia estética
2016
This article defends that Wittgenstein's distinction between showing and saying and the critical thesis associated with it, i.e: that what is shown can't be said, is crucial to understand not only his first philosophy but even his second one; and not only his philosophy of language but also his Aesthetics.
Classical and Connectionist Models: Levels of Description
1993
To begin, I introduce an analysis of interlevel relations that allows us to offer an initial characterization of the debate about the way classical and connectionist models relate. Subsequently, I examine a compatibility thesis and a conditional claim on this issue. With respect to the compatibility thesis, I argue that, even if classical and connectionist models are not necessarily incompatible, the emergence of the latter seems to undermine the best arguments for the Language of Thought Hypothesis, which is essential to the former. I attack the conditional claim of connectionism to eliminativism, presented by Ramsey et al. (1990), by discrediting their discrete characterization of common-…
Sur les Codes ZigZag et Leur Décidabilité
1990
AbstractThis paper deals with zigzag factorizations and zigzag codes. The language of “zigzag” over a regular language is represented by constructing a special family of two-way automata. Decidability of zigzag codes, previously shown for the finite languages, is proved here for all regular languages by the analysis of the set of “crossing sequences” produced by a two-way automation in the family. We also obtain that it is decidable whether or not a two-way automation of a certain type is non-ambiguous.RésuméDans ce papier on reprend les notions de factorisation zigzag et de code zigzag. On construit pour tout langage rationnel, une famille d'automates bilatéres lesquels reconnaissent les m…
Introduction: Towards Zoosemiotics 2.0
2018
This volume has at least three directions of discourse. The first is a dialogue between semiotics and other disciplines dealing in animal studies: philosophy, the philosophy of language and mind, the human and social sciences, the cognitive sciences and the neurosciences. The second is a discussion within semiotics, in the passage from zoosemiotics 1.0 to zoosemiotics 2.0. Last but not least is the cultivation of an empirical field of research, or rather a critical exploration of social culture in search of interesting phenomena or, rather, phenomena pertinent to our in-depth theoretical and epistemological study.
A truth that’s told with bad intent
2014
In recent years, a lively debate has emerged about the question of correctly defining lying. Two strands of argumentation have evolved in the philosophy of language: First, the idea that lying is not necessarily connected to an intention of the speaker to deceive the hearer (e.g., Carson 2010); second, the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between lying and mere misleading (e.g., Saul 2012). This paper deals with both assumptions from the vantage point of the semantics-pragmatics interface and relates them to the question of how it is possible to lie while drawing on implicit content of an utterance. It is argued that lying necessarily involves an intention to deceive and that ma…
La filosofía del lenguaje: su naturaleza y su contexto
2016
<p class='p1'>El artículo es un intento de determinar la naturaleza de la filosofía del lenguaje a través de las relaciones de esa disciplina con otras, tanto desde el punto de vista histórico como desde el sistemático. Se examina la forma en que la filosofía del lenguaje ha venido relacionándose de hecho con la lingüística, la lógica, la psicología y la propia filosofía, al tiempo que se hacen propuestas de clarificación de esas relaciones, en el sentido prescriptivo del término. De paso, se critican ciertas nociones que han venido oscureciendo el problema, como las de “lógica filosófica”, “filosofía lingüística” y otras, para terminar apoyando el papel fundamental de la filosofía de…
Language as an “Indispensable Tool and Organ” of Reason: Intuition, Concept and Word in Schopenhauer
2020
On the first sight, Schopenhauer’s theory of language seems to be a rather simple instrumental one: Language is a means to convey information to others by sensual, vocal or written signs. However, Schopenhauer also argues that the real empirical object is the basis of a concept, which is abstracted from the former leaving out most of its properties and keeping the “essential” ones. In this paper, it is shown that Schopenhauer’s view on language cannot be reduced to an instrumental theory of language. Such a reduction would be really surprising in view of Schopenhauer’s style of writing and his critique of language.
How coincidence Bears on Persistence
2011
The ‘paradoxes of coincidence’ are generally taken as an important factor for deciding between rival views on persistence through time. In particular, the ability to deal with apparent cases of temporary coincidence is usually regarded as a good reason for favouring perdurantism (or ‘four-dimensionalism’) over endurantism (or ‘three-dimensionalism’). However, the recent work of Gilmore (2007) and McGrath (2007) challenges this standard view. For different reasons, both Gilmore and McGrath conclude that perdurantism does not really obtain support from the puzzles of temporary coincidence. In this paper, I will evaluate their arguments and defend the opposite view: that the paradoxes of coinc…
Normativity all the way down: from normative realism to pannormism
2017
In this paper, I will give an argument for what I call pannormism, the view according to which if x instantiates a metaphysically basic normative property F, then whatever grounds the being of x also instantiates F. In slogan form: if there is normativity, there is normativity all the way down. Such pannormism is in many ways analogous to panpsychism, and my discussion also contains an important lesson for panpsychism, a way to avoid its so-called combination problem. In Sect. 1, I present the argument; in Sect. 2, I discuss its conclusion.
The hermeneutics of sport: limits and conditions of possibility of our understandings of sport
2016
AbstractIn this paper, linguistic-analytic philosophy has been identified as the dominant methodology in the philosophy of sport. The hermeneutics of sport is contrasted with linguistic-analytic philosophy by analyzing Heidegger’s view of Truth. In doing so, two views of philosophy are compared: ontology or description. Sport hermeneutics’ task has to do with description. Hermeneutical explanations of sport attempt to describe the facticity of sport. Such a facticity is formed by three moments: embodiment, capabilities, and tradition. They are not components of sport that can be identified as essential components but rather, they are identifiable only for analytic purposes. These three abov…