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The Magic Prism

An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

By: Howard K. Wettstein

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The Magic Prism

An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

By: Howard K. Wettstein

In 'The Magic Prism', Howard Wettstein argues that Wittgenstein a figure with whom the critics of Frege and Russell are typically unsympathetic, laid the foundation for much of what is revolutionary in recent developments in the movement of philosophy of language.

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0195160525

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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

And Other Essays

By: Howard K. Wettstein

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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

And Other Essays

By: Howard K. Wettstein

The nature of reference, or the relation of a word to the object to which it refers, has been perhaps the dominant concern of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Extremely influential arguments by Gottlob Frege around the turn of the century convinced the large majority of philosophers that the meaning of a word must be distinguished from its referent, the former only providing some kind of direction for reaching the latter. In the last twenty years, this Fregean orthodoxy has been vigorously challenged by those who argue that certain important kinds of words, at least, refer directly without need of an intermediate meaning or sense. The essays in this volume record how a long-term study of Frege has persuaded the author that Frege's pivotal distinction between sense and reference, and his attendant philosophical views about language and thought, are unsatisfactory. Frege's perspective, he argues, imposes a distinctive way of thinking about semantics, specifically about the centrality of cognitive significance puzzles for semantics. Freed from Frege's perspective, we will no longer find it natural to think about semantics in this way.

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0804725276

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The Magic Prism

An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

By: Howard K. Wettstein

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An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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The Significance of Religious Experience

By: Howard Wettstein

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The Significance of Religious Experience

By: Howard Wettstein

In this volume of essays, Howard Wettstein explores the foundations of religious commitment. His orientation is broadly naturalistic, but not in the mode of reductionism or eliminativism. This collection explores questions of broad religious interest, but does so through a focus on the author's religious tradition, Judaism. Among the issues explored are the nature and role of awe, ritual, doctrine, religious experience; the distinction between belief and faith; problems of evil and suffering with special attention to the Book of Job and to the Akedah, the biblical story of the binding of Isaac; the virtue of forgiveness. One of the book's highlights is its literary (as opposed to philosophical) approach to theology that at the same time makes room for philosophical exploration of religion. Another is Wettstein's rejection of the usual picture that sees religious life as sitting atop a distinctive metaphysical foundation, one that stands in need of epistemological justification.

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0190226757

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The Magic Prism

The Magic Prism

Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

The Magic Prism

The Magic Prism

The Significance of Religious Experience

The Significance of Religious Experience

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