Philosophy of language

Indian Philosophy in Deleuze’s ‘Body without Organs’ I. Introduction – Brian Massumi rightly spells out the Deleuzian philosophy when he calls it ‘self-problematizing’; always confronting the reader with the question of what it is all about, and what to do with it. It challenges the reader to do something with it. It is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Pierre Hadot attributes this distinction between discourse about philosophy and philosophy itself to Stoics: ‘For the Stoics, the parts of…

David Hume drew our attention to the popular problem about inductive reasoning, which can be seen as an argument that cannot provide a circular justification for inductive reasoning. However, Nelson Goodman’s problem is different, because he is not questioning how we can justify induction, but rather what kinds of inductive practices are valid, and unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this question. In this paper, I will be explaining Goodman’s «New Riddle of Induction» and how we can…

Psychology is rooted in philosophy. Questions of how the mind worked were first posed by the Greeks. Two main schools of thought nativism, the theory founded by Plato where mental processes are innate, and philosophical empiricism, a theory posed by Aristotle which felt that mental processes were learned from experience. Although this “nature” vs “nuture” debate remains, the next fundamental players tried to differentiate the mind from the brain philosophically and experimentally. While Rene…

muddled. 3. Many of the cultural references. 4. What Gadda is trying to accomplish with these sexual references. 5. The appeal of reading about sort of gross, but everyday gross, characters. 6. The genre of the book- are we in a mystery? A book on philosophy? 7. Many of the Mussolini references. a. This book was mysterious in a way that rejected me from it’s text instead of in a way that left me wanting more. 8. What this book would be without Calvino’s introduction. a. Why Calvino reveals…

It is obvious, therefore, that the conception of the subject that emerges from Wittgenstein's vision of language and the mind immediately displaces the exclusiveness of the cognitive ego and demands not merely potencies that are foreign to it, but also the recognition of realities that are inaccessible without the cooperation of other modes of knowing that cannot be found in reason alone. But the modern self defines itself as a rational thinking consciousness, and as the organizing and…

Philosophy ("love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems regarding matters such as existence, values, reason, mind, knowledge, and language. Natural philosophy was the philosophic study of nature and the physical universe that was most influential before the growth of modern science. It is thought to be the pioneer of natural sciences. Nature has two inter-related meanings in philosophy. On the one side, it means that all natural objects, or subject to the normal working…

Theses stated in the first sentence of the citation stems from the view which has come to be regarded as traditional in philosophy, namely that the notion of truth is independent of human ways of conceptualizing. First philosopher to elucidate the untenable consequences of this traditional belief was Immanuel Kant. By doing so, he laid the foundations of the contemporary debate…

For Ayer, philosophy had to be grounded in science. This could be achieved through empirical observation. Ayer believed that all knowledge comes from the senses, that everything I know is justified by my senses. Additionally, a process of elimination for Ayer is sufficient for anything that cannot be answered by science. These eliminations can be conducted by using evidence based on you senses. Ayer concluded, “the criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is…

expedition through a strange correspondence course in philosophy. However, it is evident through the author’s writing and opinions portrayed, that the overall purpose of the novel is much more than to solely teach his readers about different philosophers throughout history. Rather, Gaarder uses the novel to demonstrate his personal view of philosophy and through many points in the novel, it is made obvious to the readers that he holds an existential philosophy. Existentialism is a philosophical…

The main goal in a human’s life is to seek understanding, whether it be something large scale like to understanding the universe or something smaller scale like figuring out the latest Iphone. Francis Bacon wrote Novum Organism to create a better philosophical understanding of prejudices humans have created when it comes to acquiring and determining truth. He categorized four types of prejudices and named them all different idols: The Idol of the Tribe, the Idol of the Cave, the Idol of the…