P. A. Gorner's English translation of Ernst Tugendhat's major philosophical work brought new perspectives to some of the central and abiding questions of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, including a specially commissioned new preface, it has been revived for a new generation of readers.
P. A. Gorner's English translation of Ernst Tugendhat's major philosophical work brought new perspectives to some of the central and abiding questions of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, including a specially commissioned new preface, it has been revived for a new generation of readers.
Ernst Tugendhat was a Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin until his retirement in 1992. His many publications include Vorlesungen über Ethik (1993) and Ethics and Politics (1992).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to this edition Hans-Johann Glock Translator's preface Part I. Introduction: Confrontation of Analytical Philosophy with Traditional Conceptions of Philosophy: 1. A question of method 2. A philosopher in search of a conception of philosophy 3. Ontology and semantics 4. Has formal semantics a fundamental question? 5. Consciousness and speech 6. The argument with the philosophy of consciousness continued 7. A practical conception of philosophy Part II. A First Step: Analysis of the Predicative Sentence: 8. Preliminary reflections on method and preview of the course of the investigation 9. Husserl's theory of meaning 10. Collapse of the traditional theory of meaning 11. Predicates: the first step in the development of an analytical conception of the meaning of sentences. The dispute between nominalists and conceptualists 12. The basic principle of analytical philosophy. The dispute continued. Predicates and quasi-predicates 13. The meaning of an expression and the circumstances of its use. Dispute with a behaviouristic conception 14. The employment-rule of an assertoric sentence. Argument with Grice and Searle 15. Positive account of the employment-rule of assertoric sentences in terms of the truth-relation 16. Supplements 17. 'And' and 'or' 18. General sentences. Resumption of the problem of predicates 19. The mode of employment of predicates. Transition to singular terms 20. What is it for a sign to stand for an object? The traditional account 21. The function of singular terms 22. Russell and Strawson 23. What is 'identification'? 24. Specification and identification. Specification and truth 25. Spatio-temporal identification and the constitution of the object-relation 26. Supplements 27. Results 28. The next steps Notes Bibliography Indexes.
Preface to this edition Hans-Johann Glock Translator's preface Part I. Introduction: Confrontation of Analytical Philosophy with Traditional Conceptions of Philosophy: 1. A question of method 2. A philosopher in search of a conception of philosophy 3. Ontology and semantics 4. Has formal semantics a fundamental question? 5. Consciousness and speech 6. The argument with the philosophy of consciousness continued 7. A practical conception of philosophy Part II. A First Step: Analysis of the Predicative Sentence: 8. Preliminary reflections on method and preview of the course of the investigation 9. Husserl's theory of meaning 10. Collapse of the traditional theory of meaning 11. Predicates: the first step in the development of an analytical conception of the meaning of sentences. The dispute between nominalists and conceptualists 12. The basic principle of analytical philosophy. The dispute continued. Predicates and quasi-predicates 13. The meaning of an expression and the circumstances of its use. Dispute with a behaviouristic conception 14. The employment-rule of an assertoric sentence. Argument with Grice and Searle 15. Positive account of the employment-rule of assertoric sentences in terms of the truth-relation 16. Supplements 17. 'And' and 'or' 18. General sentences. Resumption of the problem of predicates 19. The mode of employment of predicates. Transition to singular terms 20. What is it for a sign to stand for an object? The traditional account 21. The function of singular terms 22. Russell and Strawson 23. What is 'identification'? 24. Specification and identification. Specification and truth 25. Spatio-temporal identification and the constitution of the object-relation 26. Supplements 27. Results 28. The next steps Notes Bibliography Indexes.
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