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"Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. Along the way Jacquette considers Frege's ground-breaking Begriffschrift (1879), in which he formulated his 'ideal logical language', his magisterial Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893 and 1903), and his complex relation to thinkers including Husserl and especially Russell, whose Paradox had such drastic implications for Frege's logicism"--

ch. 1. Truth telling in the public interest -- ch. 2. Journalistic rights and responsibilities -- ch. 3. Moral ideals and workaday jounalistic realitites -- ch. 4. Freedom of the press -- ch. 5. Censorship and withholding information for the greater good -- ch. 6. Protection of confidential sources -- ch. 7. Journalistic respect for privacy -- ch. 8. Objectivity, perspective, and bias -- ch. 9. Editorial license and obligations.

This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong's theory of objects, and his discovery of assumptions as a fourth category of mental states to supplement his teacher Franz Brentano's references to presentations, feelings, and judgments. The chapters explore further the meaning and metaphysics of fictional and other nonexistent intended objects, fine points in Meinongian object theory are considered and new and previously unanticipated problems are addressed. The author traces being and non-being, and aspects of beingless objects including objects in fiction, ideal objects in scientific theory, objects ostensibly referred to in false science and false history, and intentional imaginative projection of future states of affairs. The chapters focus on an essential choice of conceptual, logical, semantic, ontic and more generally metaphysical problems, and an argument is progressively developed from the first to the final chapter, as key ideas are introduced and refined. Meinong studies have come a long way from Bertrand Russell's off-target criticisms, and recent times have seen a rise of interest in a Meinongian approach to logic and the theory of meaning. New thinkers see Meinong as a bridge figure between analytic and continental thought, thanks to the need for an adequate semantics of meaning in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, making this book a particularly timely publication

1. Schopenhauer's idealism -- 2. Empirical knowledge of the world as representation : from natural science to transcendental metaphysics -- 3. Willing and the world as Will -- 4. Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life -- 5. Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime -- 6. Transcendental freedom of Will -- 7. Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality -- 8. Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein.

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Meinong's Theory of Objects -- I. Elements of Object Theory -- 1. Data and Theory -- 2. Meinongian Semantics -- 3. Principles of Meinong's Theory -- 4. Meinongian Ontology and Extraontology -- 5. Program for a Revisionary Object Theory -- II. Formal Semantic Paradox in Meinong's Object Theory -- 1. Clark-Rapaport Paradox -- 2. Mally's Heresy and Nuclear-Extranuclear Properties -- 3. Sosein and the Sosein Paradox -- 4. Dual Modes of Predication -- 5. Extranuclear Solution -- III. Meinong's Theory of Defective Objects -- 1. Mally's Paradox -- 2. Russellian Hierarchy of Ordered Objects -- 3. Dilemmas of Intentionality and a Strengthened Paradox -- 4. The Soseinlos Mountain -- 5. Nuclear Converse Intentionality -- IV. The Object Theory Intentionality of Ontological Commitment -- 1. The Poverty of Extensionalism -- 2. Parsons' Criticisms -- 3. Extensional Alternatives -- 4. Non-Object-Theoretical Intensional Methods -- 5. Ontological Commitment and the Object Theory Rationale -- V. Logic, Mind, and Meinong -- 1. Mind-Independent Meinongian Objects -- 2. Mally's Diagonal Approach -- 3. Unapprehendability and the Power of Assumption -- 4. Conflicts with Intentional Criteria of Ontological Commitment -- 5. Phenomenology and Semantic Designation -- VI. Meinong's Doctrine of the Modal Moment -- 1. The Annahmen Thesis -- 2. Russell's Problem of the Existent Round Square -- 3. Watering-Down -- 4. Eliminating the Modal Moment -- 5. Intentional Identity and Assumptive Generality in Meinong's Object Theory -- Part Two: Object Theory O -- I. Syntax, Formation and Inference Principles -- 1. The Logic -- 2. Syntax -- 3. Formation Principles -- 4. Inference Principles -- II. Semantics -- 1. Intended Interpretation -- 2. Formal Semantics -- 3. Validity -- 4. Ambiguity and Translation from Ordinary Language.

The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. : A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry; Considers the meaning of a high, the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness; Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers, psyc

Main description: Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher offers a selection of Rescher's writings over a span of decades representing the core of his prodigious research interests in six key areas. Each section of the *Reader* is accompanied by a compact critical introduction written by a leading philosophical scholar with spezial expertise in Rescher's philosophy, and the volume opens with an appreciative introduction written by the editor and a concluding retrospective by Rescher, looking back over his oeuvre and explaining connecting themes and the unity of system contained in this extensive body of work. Taken together, the volume encapsulates the heart of Rescher's impressive lifelong contributions to philosophy between two covers, in a single volume that provides a solid overview of his thought while serving to direct readers to the corpus of Rescher's writings for amore complete picture.

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by the author himself, Dale Jacquette presents a fictional dialogue over a three-day period on the ethical complexities of capital punishment. Jacquette moves his readers from outlining basic issues in matters of life and death, to questions of justice and compassion, with a concluding dialogue on the conditional and unconditional right to life. Jacquette's characters talk plainly and thoughtfully about the death penalty, and readers are left to determine for themselves how best to think about the morality of putting people to death

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic. Surveys major trends and offers original insights

Franz Brentano (1838–1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna Circle, and for phenomenology in the work of such figures as his student Edmund Husserl. This volume brings together newly commissioned chapters on his important work in theory of judgement, the reform of syllogistic logic, theory of intentionality, empirical descriptive psychology and phenomenology, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and ontology, value theory, and natural theology. It also offers a critical evaluation of Brentano's significance in his historical context, and of his impact on contemporary philosophy in both the analytic and the continental traditions.

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: TWO-FOLD TASK OF HUME'S CRITIQUE -- CHAPTER 1: MINIMA SENSIBILIA -- CHAPTER 2: AGAINST MIND-MEDIATED IDEAS OF INFINITE DIVISIBILITY -- CHAPTER 3: HUME'S INKSPOT METAPHYSICS OF SPACE: FINITE DIVISIBILITY OF EXTENSION INTO SENSIBLE EXTENSIONLESS INDIVISIBLES -- CHAPTER 4: HUME'S REDUCTIO ARGUMENTS -- CHAPTER 5: ANTITHESIS IN KANT'S SECOND ANTINOMY -- CHAPTER 6: CLASSICAL MATHEMATICS AND HUME'S REFUTATION OF INFINITE DIVISIBILITY -- CHAPTER 7: INFINITE DIVISIBILITY IN HUME'S FIRST ENQUIRY -- CONCLUSION: HUME AGAINST THE MATHEMATICIANS -- AFTERWORD: HUME'S AESTHETIC PSYCHOLOGY OF DISTANCE, GREATNESS, AND THE SUBLIME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.