Volume 14 (2023)
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Main Subjects = Analytical Philosophy
Number of Articles: 8
Analysis of Referential and Attributive Uses Based on Indirect Speech Acts
Volume 14, Issue 2 , January 2024
Abstract
One of the important questions about definite descriptions is the difference between referential and attributive uses of these descriptions. Donnellan objects Russell and Strawson's theories of definite descriptions because they both fail to explain referential use, but nowhere do they give us a set ... Read MoreExtending Zalta's Logic to Abstract Ordinary Object
Volume 14, Issue 2 , January 2024
Abstract
Abstract According to Zalta's Neo-Meinongean object theory, objects are either ordinary or abstract. Ordinary objects, though abstract, exemplify - rather than encode - their properties. However, it seems that objects such as mythical objects violate this inclusive and exclusive categorization. Mythological ... Read MoreDoes Ramseyfication render structural realism meaningless?
Volume 14, Issue 1 , July 2023, , Pages 147-172
Abstract
Ramseyfication is one of the methods philosophers have proposed for formalizing structural realism. Ketland (2004), while providing explications about the Ramseyfication of theories and introducing some concepts related to it, presents a formulation of the Newman problem. He believes it can be almost ... Read MoreAbsolutely unsolvable problems and supertask computers
Volume 14, Issue 1 , July 2023, , Pages 195-204
Abstract
First, in the light of Feferman’s views, we will examine Gödel’s dichotomy that either the capabilities of the human mind are beyond any finite machine, or there are Diophantine-type mathematical equations that are absolutely unsolvable. Then we examine Putnam’s argument that if ... Read MoreSubject and Logical form in Tractatus
Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 29-44
Abstract
Early Wittgenstein separate meaning from ideas by attaching necessity to language. In his view, language has a logical structure which is a model of existing necessities in the world. He define object in a specific way to explain existing necessities in the world. At his viewpoint there is a sign for ... Read MoreThe Social Factors in Mathematical and Logical Knowledge; According to Edinburgh School
Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 67-96
Abstract
The "Strong Programme" in the sociology of scientific knowledge is known by Edinburgh school and the relativistic approach of this school. According to their attitude all things accounted as "knowledge", have causes that make them acceptable in the society; no matter they are right or wrong. And the ... Read MoreEvaluation of Horwich Approach to Kripke's Criticisms of Use Theory
Volume 7, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 97-116
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The main purpose of this article is the Horwich arguments in "Meaning, use and truth ", which is published in the Mind journal (1995). In this article, he defends the idea of Wittgenstein, use theory, in contrast to the arguments raised against the approach. Horwich focus specifically on Kripke's criticism. ... Read MoreAnti-Realist Modal Meinongianism: Incomplete Objects
Volume 7, Issue 1 , August 2016, , Pages 31-40