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Hermeneutics and Its Problems
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ISBN: 3319989405 3319989413 9783319989419 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer

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This book details a history of the methodology of textual interpretation from Ancient Greece to the 20th century. It presents a complete English translation of Hermeneutics and Its Problems, written by Russian philosopher Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, along with insightful commentary. Written in 1918, Shpet's text remained unpublished in its original Russian until the collapse of the Soviet Union. This engaging translation will be of value to anyone interested in early phenomenology, Russian intellectual history, as well as the divergence of phenomenology and the analytic philosophy of language. The volume also features translations of five key essays written by Shpet. The first presents an extended elaboration of a non-egological conception of consciousness on Husserlian grounds that considerably predates the well-known arguments of early Sartre and Gurwitsch. The second details the rudiments of a phenomenological philosophy of history that traces a central theme back to Parmenides. The next two reveal Shpet’s abiding philosophical interest in combating skepticism and what he took to be the reigning neo-Kantian model by which philosophy is a handmaiden to mathematical physics. The final one features a terse statement of Shpet’s overall philosophical viewpoint, written during the early years of the Stalinist period. Shpet offers an example of one facet of philosophy from a phenomenological viewpoint, demonstrating the progress as well as the deficiencies of successive eras along the historical journey. In doing so, he also gradually reveals the need for a theory of signs, interpretation, and understanding. This collection brings together key documents for assessing Shpet’s hermeneutic phenomenology and his perceived need to develop a phenomenological philosophy of language. .


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Erforschung und Entwicklung von Communities : Handbuch zur qualitativen Textanalyse und Wissensorganisation mit GABEK®
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ISBN: 3658270993 Year: 2019 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Vieweg,

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Das Buch stellt das Verfahren GABEK® (GAnzheitliche BEwältigung von Komplexität) zur Untersuchung von Gemeinschaften vor. Es sind Konzepte, Ontologien, Wertvorstellungen, Meinungen über Ursachen und Wirkungen sowie emotionale Einstellungen, die die Mitglieder einer Gemeinschaft verbinden. Durch softwareunterstützte Textanalyse werden diese in Form linguistischer Netze systematisiert. Semantische Netze werden als Meinungslandkarten in unterschiedlichen Komplexitätsstufen dargestellt. Sie erleichtern die Auswahl von Zielen und Maßnahmen bei der Umsetzung von Projekten der Organisationsentwicklung, Evaluierung, Regionalentwicklung, Produktbewertung oder Kundenbindung. Durch qualitative Textanalyse führt GABEK® zum Verstehen der Gesamtsituation und zur Theoriebildung. Das Verfahren erleichtert die Konfliktlösung und eine Ausrichtung der Community auf strategische Ziele und Zukunftsvisionen, die von den meisten Betroffenen akzeptiert werden, auch wenn es um Erneuerung und Reformen geht. Der Inhalt Was ist eine Gemeinschaft? Sinn- und Bedeutungszusammenhänge Von Begriffsnetzen zu Ontologien durch Komplexitätsreduktion Linguistische Gestaltbildung Transfer von Erfahrungswissen und Wissensverarbeitung Der Ablauf eines GABEK®-Projekts am Beispiel der Organisationsentwicklung Organisationsentwicklung durch dynamische Wissensorganisation Die Zielgruppen Berater in der Organisationsentwicklung Forschende und Lehrende im Bereich Linguistik, auch Computerlinguistik Forschende und Lehrende in den Bereichen Philosophie, Psychologie, Sozialwissenschaften Der Autor Prof. Dr. Josef Zelger studierte Philosophie, Psychologie, Theologie und Physik an der Universität Innsbruck. Von 1983 bis 2005 war er als Professor für Philosophie an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck tätig. Er war Mitbegründer und über fast drei Jahrzehnte Mitherausgeber der philosophischen Fachzeitschrift CONCEPTUS. .


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Ezumezu : A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies
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ISBN: 3030110753 3030110745 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The issue of a logic foundation for African thought connects well with the question of method. Do we need new methods for African philosophy and studies? Or, are the methods of Western thought adequate for African intellectual space? These questions are not some of the easiest to answer because they lead straight to the question of whether or not a logic tradition from African intellectual space is possible. Thus in charting the course of future direction in African philosophy and studies, one must be confronted with this question of logic. The author boldly takes up this challenge and becomes the first to do so in a book by introducing new concepts and formulating a new African culture-inspired system of logic called Ezumezu which he believes would ground new methods in African philosophy and studies. He develops this system to rescue African philosophy and, by extension, sundry fields in African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from the spell of Plato and the hegemony of Aristotle. African philosophers can now ground their discourses in Ezumezu logic which will distinguish their philosophy as a tradition in its own right. On the whole, the book engages with some of the lingering controversies in the idea of (an) African logic before unveiling Ezumezu as a philosophy of logic, methodology and formal system. The book also provides fresh arguments and insights on the themes of decolonisation and Africanisation for the intellectual transformation of scholarship in Africa. It will appeal to philosophers and logicians—undergraduates and post graduate researchers—as well as those in various areas of African studies.


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Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology
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ISBN: 3030024326 3030024318 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book investigates the contribution of R.G. Collingwood to the field of philosophical methodology through a discussion of Collingwood’s conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy and science and between philosophy and history? For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to the activity of philosophizing. This book will be of interest both to those who are interested in Collingwood’s philosophy and, more generally, to all who are interested in the question ‘what is philosophy?’.


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Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason
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ISBN: 3319955071 3319955063 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues that consequentialism as a general theory of rational action fails and that this does not force us into the dichotomy teleology vs deontology. The unity of practical reason can be saved without consequentialism. In the process, he presents insightful criticism of standard models of action and rational choice. This will help readers discover a new perspective on the theory of rationality. The approach is radical: It transcends the reductive narrowness of instrumental rationality without denying its practical impact. Actions do exist that are outlined in accordance to utility maximizing or even self-interest maximizing. Yet, not all actions are to be understood in these terms. Actions oriented around social roles, for example, cannot count as irrational only because there is no known underlying maximizing heuristic. The concept of bounded rationality tries to embed instrumental rationality into a form of life to highlight limits of our cognitive capabilities and selective perceptions. However, the agent is still left within the realm of cost-benefit-reasoning. The idea of social preferences or meta-preferences cannot encompass the plurality of human actions. According to the author they ignore the plurality of reasons that drive agency. Hence, they coerce agency in fitting into a theory that undermines humanity. His theory of structural rationality acknowledges lifeworld patterns of interaction and meaning. .


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Words, Objects and Events in Economics
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ISBN: 3030526739 3030526720 9783030526733 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer

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This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the philosophical and methodological fallacies of this turn in modern economic theory that the removal of the moral motivation of economic agents from modern economic theory has entailed; and (ii) proposing a return descriptive economics as the means with which the moral content of economic life could be restored in economic theory. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with agency and economists who build economic models that rest in the intention of the agent.


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Aboutness
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ISBN: 0691173656 140084598X 9781400845989 1306577705 9781306577700 9780691144955 0691144958 9780691173658 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth-conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results--directed content--is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Aboutness represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

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Semantics (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Definability --- Definition (Logic) --- Undefinability --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Alfred Tarski. --- Carnap. --- David Lewis. --- Gilbert Ryle. --- Nelson Goodman. --- William James. --- aboutness. --- alethic extrapolation. --- assertive content. --- closure violations. --- confirmation theory. --- content-part. --- content-parts. --- contextualism. --- counterfactualism. --- epistemic modality. --- false statements. --- finite beings. --- hyperbole. --- inductive extrapolation. --- infinity. --- intrinsic variation. --- knowledge. --- logical substraction. --- logical subtraction. --- logician. --- loose talk. --- meaning. --- metaontoloy. --- metaphysics. --- mysterian. --- number fictionalism. --- ontology. --- partial truth. --- philosophical methodology. --- philosophy of language. --- piggybacking. --- pivoting. --- preferences. --- projective extrapolation. --- quantifiers. --- recursive model. --- reductive model. --- selection. --- semantic content. --- semantics. --- sentence. --- subject matter. --- surplus content. --- truth-conditions. --- truth-value. --- truth. --- truthmakers. --- type 4 extrapolation. --- unexpected content. --- upward difference transmission. --- verisimilitude. --- versimilitude.

Knowledge, nature, and the good : essays on ancient philosophy.
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ISBN: 0691117241 0691117233 9786612087080 1282087088 1400826446 9781400826445 9780691117232 9780691117249 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton university press

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Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods--from Hippocratic medical theory and Plato's epistemology and moral philosophy, to Aristotle's physics and metaphysics, academic scepticism, and the cosmology, moral psychology, and ethical theory of the ancient Stoics. Almost half of the pieces appear here for the first time or are presented in newly expanded, extensively revised versions. Many stand at the cutting edge of research into ancient ethics and moral psychology. Other chapters, dating from as far back as 1970, are classics of philosophical scholarship on antiquity that continue to play a prominent role in current teaching and scholarship in the field. All of the chapters are distinctive for the way that, whatever the particular topic being pursued, they attempt to understand the ancient philosophers' views in philosophical terms drawn from the ancient philosophical tradition itself (rather than from contemporary philosophy). Through engaging creatively and philosophically with the ancient texts, these essays aim to make ancient philosophical perspectives freshly available to contemporary philosophers and philosophy students, in all their fascinating inventiveness, originality, and deep philosophical merit. This book will be treasured by philosophers, classicists, students of philosophy and classics, those in other disciplines with an interest in ancient philosophy, and anyone who seeks to understand philosophy in philosophical terms.

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Ancient philosophy --- Antieke filosofie --- Filosofie [Antieke ] --- Filosofie [Griekse ] --- Filosofie [Romeinse ] --- Filosofie van de Oudheid --- Greek philosophy --- Griekse filosofie --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophie antique --- Philosophie de l'Antiquité --- Philosophie grecque --- Philosophie romaine --- Philosophy [Ancient ] --- Philosophy [Greek ] --- Philosophy [Roman ] --- Roman philosophy --- Romeinse filosofie --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Naturalism --- Good and evil --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Naturalisme --- Bien et mal --- #GGSB: Filosofie --- #GGSB: Filosofie (oudheid) --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Filosofie --- Filosofie (oudheid) --- Academic skepticism. --- Alexander Nehamas. --- Alexander of Aphrodisias. --- Analogy. --- Antiochus of Ascalon. --- Aristotle. --- Arius Didymus. --- Atomism. --- Awareness. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Carneades. --- Chrysippus. --- Concept. --- Counterargument. --- Criticism. --- Democritus. --- Determinism. --- Dialectician. --- Disease. --- Empedocles. --- Epictetus. --- Epicureanism. --- Epicurus. --- Epistemology. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Explication. --- Eye color. --- Feeling. --- First principle. --- Four causes. --- Glaucon. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Hedonism. --- Hiero (Xenophon). --- Hypothesis. --- Illustration. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Indication (medicine). --- Inference. --- Ingredient. --- Inquiry. --- Isocrates. --- Lecture. --- Loeb Classical Library. --- Materialism. --- Methodology. --- Morality. --- Mutatis mutandis. --- Natural kind. --- On Ancient Medicine. --- Ontology. --- Parmenides. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical analysis. --- Philosophical methodology. --- Philosophical theory. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Plato. --- Platonism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Practical reason. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Premise. --- Principle. --- Protagoras. --- Pyrrhonism. --- Quantity. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Requirement. --- Rhetoric. --- Self-sufficiency. --- Semen. --- Sextus Empiricus. --- Skepticism. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic. --- Stoicism. --- Suggestion. --- Teleology. --- The Philosopher. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Value theory. --- Virtue. --- W. D. Ross. --- Writing.

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