Philosophy of Language and Logical Theory

The content of this book provides a unified and coherent treatment of a number of important issues in the philosophy of language and logical theory. Topics that are addressed include the nature of linguistic meaning and the conditions of synonymy, meaning and reference in relation to proper names, the conditions of illocutionary acts, and the reference or "aboutness" of sentence-in-use, the nature of symbols and metaphors, and their similarities and differences.Contents: Vagueness, Ambiguity, Open Texture, Meaning and Verifiability; Vagueness; Vaugueness, Verifiability and Metaphysics; Vagueness, Meaning and Absurdity; Ambiguity; The Meaning of Proper Names; Symbols and Metaphors; Metaphor-I; Symbols and Metaphors; Metaphor-II; Language and Speech; Language and Commitment; Conditions of Illocutionary Acts; Language and Speech as Institution and Practice; Wittgenstein, Goodman, Frege and Kripke; Common Names and Family Resemblances; "About"; Frege on Concepts; Kripke and Frege on Identity Statements.

Politics & Social Sciences

Khatchadourian, Haig

Philosophy

University Press of America

The content of this book provides a unified and coherent treatment of a number of important issues in the philosophy of language and logical theory. Topics that are addressed include the nature of linguistic meaning and the conditions of synonymy, meaning and reference in relation to proper names, the conditions of illocutionary acts, and the reference or 'aboutness' of sentence-in-use, the nature of symbols and metaphors, and their similarities and differences. Contents: Vagueness, Ambiguity, Open Texture, Meaning and Verifiability; Vagueness; Vaugueness, Verifiability and Metaphysics; Vagueness, Meaning and Absurdity; Ambiguity; The Meaning of Proper Names; Symbols and Metaphors; Metaphor-I; Symbols and Metaphors; Metaphor-II; Language and Speech; Language and Commitment; Conditions of Illocutionary Acts; Language and Speech as Institution and Practice; Wittgenstein, Goodman, Frege and Kripke; Common Names and Family Resemblances; 'About'; Frege on Concepts; Kripke and Frege on Identity Statements.

The Morality of Terrorism argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing «freedom fighting» from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of «freedom fighting», such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerilla warfare. This book then evaluates the morality of actual and possible judicial and military responses to terrorism by targeted governments. An appendix provides a case study (the Palestine problem) of root causes of political and moralistic-religious terrorism.

The Morality of Terrorism (Conflict and Consciousness)

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Community and Communitarianism presents - and defends in detail - a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in «teleological communities,» cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social philosophy, the book contributes significantly to ethics.

Community and Communitarianism (Conflict and Consciousness)

A Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel is the sine qua non of a stable peace between Arabs and Israelis, and at this late date would realize a modicum of the Palestinians’ moral and legal territorial rights (roughly equal to those of the Jews/Israelis), and a long-standing aspiration for self-determination. A defense of the «two-state» option, and a qualified defense of the Oslo Accords against Islamist and radical Jewish rejectionist critics is therefore offered. Besides satisfying Palestinian aspirations, Palestinian statehood would help open the way to a comprehensive peace between the Arabs and Israel, through a just, negotiated settlement of the Syrian/Lebanese-Israeli territorial disputes. A comprehensive peace, in turn, should stimulate economic and cultural cooperation between Israel and the Arab countries (the «peace divided»), lending it additional strength. Increased stability should also result from the hoped-for liberalization and democratization of the region’s Arab regimes.

The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians (Conflict and Consciousness)

History

Africa

Shadows of time: Poems

Ashod Press

Community and Communitarianism presents--and defends in detail--a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in "teleological communities," cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social philosophy, the book contributes significantly to ethics.

Community and Communitarianism

Wipf and Stock

A Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel is the sine qua non of a stable peace between Arabs and Israelis, and at this late date would realize a modicum of the Palestinians' moral and legal territorial rights (roughly equal to those of the Jews/Israelis), and a long-standing aspiration for self-determination. A defense of the --two-state-- option, and a qualified defense of the Oslo Accords against Islamist and radical Jewish rejectionist critics is therefore offered. Besides satisfying Palestinian aspirations, Palestinian statehood would help open the way to a comprehensive peace between the Arabs and Israel, through a just, negotiated settlement of the Syrian/Lebanese-Israeli territorial disputes. A comprehensive peace, in turn, should stimulate economic and cultural cooperation between Israel and the Arab countries (the --peace dividend--), lending it additional strength. Increased stability should also result from the hoped-for liberalization and democratization of the region's Arab regimes. Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie. He received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University and has been awarded several prizes for poetry and literary essays. In 1973 he received the Outstanding Educator of America Award.

The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians

Middle East

The series provides a forum for innovative, high-quality work in all fields of analytical philosophy. The volumes in this series are published in either English or German.

Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, 42)

de Gruyter

 Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions is an in-depth, critical and constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; an emotive theory of truth; P. F. Strawson’s performative theory; and N. Rescher’s novel theory of a coherentist criterion of truth. The constructive parts include an analysis of the concept of "a fact," the meaning and uses of "true" and "false" in empirical statements, together with the various sorts of conditions for their correct application; the appraisive/evaluative uses of true and false statements; the performative-cum-cognitive uses of "true" empirical statements; and the conditions of the performative uses of "true." A significant claim about the concept of truth is its indefinablity; albeit for quite different reasons from Gottlob Frege’s reason based on his argument against the correspondence theory of truth.

Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis)

Ontos Verlag

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Philosophy of Language and Logical Theory

Philosophy of Language and Logical Theory

The Morality of Terrorism (Conflict and Consciousness)

Community and Communitarianism (Conflict and Consciousness)

The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians (Conflict and Consciousness)

Shadows of time: Poems

Community and Communitarianism

The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians

Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, 42)

Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis)