New essays in the philosophy of language and mind (Book.
Keith Donnellan is one of the major figures in 20th-century philosophy of language, a key part of the highly influential generation of scholars that included Hilary Putnam, Saul Kripke, and David Kaplan. Like many of these philosophers, his primary contributions were published in article form rather than books. This volume presents a highly focused collection of articles by Donnellan.
This module explores philosophical thinking about language and its relationship to thought in pre-Kantian modern European philosophy. Special attention will be paid to the consequences theories of mind and language were thought to have for other areas of philosophy, especially epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. We.
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy from the 1960s until his death, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.
Philosophy of Language covers a range of advanced topics in philosophy of language. In any given year of delivery several of the following topics will be addressed in detail: sense and reference, meaning theories, context-sensitivity, naturalized semantics. Several of the following topics will also be addressed (but the focus can vary from year to year depending on the interests of the.
The Mind, Language and Metaphysics research cluster is the largest group in the department and covers a broad range of key philosophical disciplines and philosophical methodologies. We have world-leading expertise in many core areas of philosophical metaphysics—these include the study of causation, grounds, powers, laws, emergence and the nature of fundamental reality—as well as a panoply.
Since its publication in 1996, many thousands of students have first encountered key issues in the philosophy of mind in the pages of Rocco J. Gennaro's introductory work, Mind and Brain: A Dialogue on the Mind-Body Problem. In this new edition, Gennaro updates and expands the work to reflect current topics and discussions. The dialogue provides a clear and compelling overview of the mind-body.
Conor has published on a range of topics in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including self-knowledge, epistemic warrant, mental agency, doxastic control and freedom, the aim of belief, and assertion. He is currently working in particular on epistemic normativity and its relation to the nature of belief. For up-to-date details and downloadable copies of my publications please see my.