The Legitimacy of Truth: Proceedings of the III Meeting Italian-American PhilosophyRiccardo Dottori This volume contains the Proceedings of the Third meeting Italian/American Philosophy that took place in Rome in June 5-10, 2001. What is "Truth" in Analytic Philosophy after the linguistic turn? What can we say about "Truth" in Hermeneutics, after taking into account the so-called hermeneutical circle? According to Nietzsche: "Truth is that form of error without which human beings could not live." From this definition it follows: "The point is not the rightness of theory but its importance for human existence." Could we say the same from an epistemological point of view? Who (or what) could be the neutral arbiter among different conceptual schemes? Can an interpretative paradigm stand in as a substitute for traditional objectivity? The controversial problem of "Truth," however, must be discussed within the various fields of philosophy: Aesthetics, Logic, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. In view of this, Hermeneutics and Analytic Philosophy converged to create the body of this meetin |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 14
... replacement of causal effect models drawn from the natural sciences by patterns of meaning analysis , by descriptive ... replaced by the analysis of the rules according to which we make our statements or depict the pictures of human life ...
... replacement of causal effect models drawn from the natural sciences by patterns of meaning analysis , by descriptive ... replaced by the analysis of the rules according to which we make our statements or depict the pictures of human life ...
Page 18
... replacement of the descriptive style previously employed in mathematics , the sciences and in ordinary language as well , by a constructive style according to which the meaning of a word , the border of a concept , the practice of rule ...
... replacement of the descriptive style previously employed in mathematics , the sciences and in ordinary language as well , by a constructive style according to which the meaning of a word , the border of a concept , the practice of rule ...
Page 21
... Replacement Thesis : For any human first language , for all expressions of a proposition in that language via a context - sensitive sentence , there exists a context - insensitive sentence in that language that expresses that ...
... Replacement Thesis : For any human first language , for all expressions of a proposition in that language via a context - sensitive sentence , there exists a context - insensitive sentence in that language that expresses that ...
Page 22
... Replacement Thesis that might purport to bypass such disputes — and they are what I propose to discuss in these remarks . The first holds that the Replacement Thesis is easily established by a method of stipulation : for each use of a ...
... Replacement Thesis that might purport to bypass such disputes — and they are what I propose to discuss in these remarks . The first holds that the Replacement Thesis is easily established by a method of stipulation : for each use of a ...
Page 23
... replacements . A full critical assessment of Contextualism is beyond the scope of this paper . I content myself with ... Replacement : Stipulation " I begin my discussion of the first take with a remark of Stalnaker . He notes that it ...
... replacements . A full critical assessment of Contextualism is beyond the scope of this paper . I content myself with ... Replacement : Stipulation " I begin my discussion of the first take with a remark of Stalnaker . He notes that it ...
Common terms and phrases
analysis argument Begriff behaviour belief bioethics boundaries Brutus's stabbing claim classical realist cognitive cognitivism cognitivist communication concept considered context context-sensitive critique culture Davidson Descartes determined distinction doubt essay ethical realism ethical realists everyday example existence expression external facts and properties function Gadamer global Heidegger Hermeneutics human idea identity individual internal Interpretanden Interpretation joke justice Kant kind knowledge Komparation Kripke language least logical M. H. Abrams meaning metaphysical moral nature non-accidentally non-cognitivist normative notion objects ontological perfect duties person philosophical Philosophical Investigations political position possible poverty line principle problem proposition public reason question rational Rawls refer relation relevant Replacement Thesis semantic sense sentence severe poverty social stabbing of Caesar structure theory Theory of Justice thought true truth Überzeugungen Ulpian understanding utilitarian Verstehen Wahrheitsbegriff Wahrheitsprinzip Wittgenstein WITTGENSTEIN AND ADORNO words writing
Popular passages
Page 138 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Page 137 - For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Page 136 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 143 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields— like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main— why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 125 - We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which says the same; but also in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by any other. (Any more than one musical theme can be replaced by another...
Page 140 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea...
Page 140 - What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 94 - The problems arising through a misinterpretation of our forms of language have the character of depth. They are deep disquietudes; their roots are as deep in us as the forms of our language and their significance is as great as the importance of our language.
Page 145 - Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and particle of God.