Guido Küng, philosophy educator. Member European Society Analytic Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Allgemeine Gessellschaft Philosphie in Deutschland, Deutsche Gesellschaft Phänomenologische Forschung, Gesellschaft Analytische Philosophie, Schweizerische Gesellschaft Logik und Philosophie der Wissenschaft, Society Philosophique Fribourg.
Career
Professor University Notre Dame, Indiana, 1962-1973. Professor philosophy, director Institute East-European studies University Fribourg, since 1973, dean faculty letters, 1980-1981. Visiting professor University Laval, Quebec, Canada, 1969, Washington University, St. Louis, 1972, Pontificia University, Rio de Janeiro, 1979, Fudan University Shanghai, China, 1987-1988.
Researcher Husserl-Archives, University Leuven, Belgium, 1970-1971. Member committee research grants Swiss Academy Humaniteis and Social Sciences, since 1982. Member bureau steering committee International Federation Philosophical Societies, since 1983.
It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike the "continental" reader for whom this work was originally written, the English speaking reader will be more familiar with most of the philosophers dis cussed in this book, and he will in general not be tempted to dismiss them indiscriminately as "positivists" and "nominalists". But the English version of this study may help to redress the balance in another respect. In view of the present emphasis on ordinary language and the wide spread tendency to leave the mathematical logicians alone with their technicalities, it seems not without merit to revive the interest in formal ontology and the construction of formal systems. A closer look at the historical account which will be given here, may convince the reader that there are several points in the historical develop ment whose consequences have not yet been fully assessed: I mention, e. g. , the shift from the traditional three-level semantics of sense and deno tation to the contemporary two-level semantics of representation; the relation of extensional structure and intensional content in the extensional systems of Wittgenstein and Carnap; the confusing changes in labelling the different kinds of analytic and apriori true sentences; etc. Among the philosophically interesting tools of symbolic logic Lesniewski's calculus of names deserves special attention.
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Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載