ISBN:
9789004312661
Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities volume 105
Series Statement:
Polish analytical philosophy
Series Statement:
Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities
DDC:
199/.438
Keywords:
Philosophy, Polish 20th century
Description / Table of Contents:
Knowledge, Language and Silence: Selected Papers; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Foreword; INTRODUCTION; 1. On the Need to Philosophize; 2. On the Meaning of the History of Science for Philosophy; EPISTEMOLOGY; 3. On Duality in the Aspect of Being and Cognition and on the Tendency to Overcome this Duality as the Basis for Philosophical Trends and Standpoints; 4. A Few Remarks on Cognitive Values; 5. Is Intersubjective Similarity of Sensory Impressions a Necessary Assumption in Natural Sciences?; 6. Irrationalism and Scientific Cognition; 7. Conventionalism and Relativism
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Skepticism and Agnosticism in Contemporary Epistemology9. On the Kinds of Skepticism; 10. Philosophical Skepticism and the Scientific Method; METHODOLOGY; 11. On Some Methods of Justifying Sentences about Future Events; 12. A Few Remarks on Reasoning by Analogy; 13. Laws of Physics and the Postulate of Truthfulness of Scientific Statements; 14. On Prospective Definitions; 15. Logical Division and Definition; GRAMMAR AND LOGIC; 16. Some Notions of Grammar in View of Logic; 17. On Semiotic Conventions; 18. Symbol; SEMANTICS; 19. On the Philosophy of Proper Names
Description / Table of Contents:
20. Regarding the So-Called Empty Names21. On the Semantics of Adjectives; 22. On the Semantics of Conditional Sentences; 23. The Conception of Language and Truth; PRAGMATICS; 24. On Namelessness; 25. Silence as an Expression and as a Value; 26. On the Semiotic Functions of Silence; 27. On the Notion of Understanding; CONCLUSION; 28. When I Think of the Word "Freedom"; Editorial Afterword: Izydora Dąmbska - A Steadfast Thinker; Bibliography; Name Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten [373]-397
