Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and.
The Philosophical Logic, Language, and Metaphysics researches the underlying nature of reality and how it connects with the way in which we talk about the world. It brings together philosophers working both within traditional areas of analytic philosophy as well as more recent, innovative, areas with an interdisciplinary remit.
These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their nature, the sorites paradox, and the very distinction between sense and nonsense.
In addition to introducing a number of central issues in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and philosophy of language, this course also teaches and further develops a number of essential skills including extracting and evaluating philosophical arguments, critical writing, and the application of logical concepts to philosophical problems.
A collection of some of Moore's essays has been published under the title Language, World, and Limits: Essays in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Moore also has a special interest in the work of Bernard Williams, with whom he was a colleague in Cambridge and about whom he has written extensively.
This is a collection of previously published essays that are all concerned, at some level, with the nature, scope, and limits of representation, where by representation is meant the act of representing, truly or falsely, how things are. The collection is divided into three parts. The essays in Part I deal with linguistic representation. One thesis that surfaces at various points in these.
Get this from a library! Language, world, and limits: essays in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. (A W Moore) -- A.W. Moore presents eighteen of his philosophical essays, written since 1986, on representing how things are. He sketches out the nature, scope, and limits of representation through language, and.
Introduction Philosophy is an academic field concerned with the generation of aclear understanding of such phenomenon as nature, the confines ofknowledge, and the rules of moral judgment. As such, the field is made upof five branches metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and aesthetics,all of which contribute to the achievement of its.