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Language as a Social Entity
By Adrian Constantinescu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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The purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of the
function of the majority of conventional language forms, the meaningfulness of human
behavior, the content of an Intentional state, and the successful performance of an
intentional action. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the relation-
ship between meaning and truth, the essential informativeness of language, the
manipulation of mental symbols, and the functions of language conventions. |
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language conventions, human behavior, mental state
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Sensuality, Spirituality, and the Da Vinci Code
By Matei Georgescu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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169-174 Page(s)
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The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of Browns claims
about early Christian documents, Jesuss divine nature, and the core of Christian
ethics. These findings highlight the importance of examining the historical truth
about Jesus. |
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The Da Vinci Code, early Christian documents, Jesus life
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The Language of Journalism Ethics
By George Lazaroiu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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162-168 Page(s)
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In the present paper, I focus on participation in global ethics discourses,
ethical claims of the mainstream media, todays portable communication technology,
journalism codes of ethics, and ethical differences between print and broadcast media.
The goal of the present study is to determine if there are relationships between the
scope of media ethics, the ethics of communication, the medias ability to affect the
thinking and reasoning of the audience, the mediation of social relations by infor-
mation and communication technologies, and the moral consequences of electronic
mediation... |
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practice of media ethics, mainstream media, Web-based journalism
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Wittgensteins Attitude toward Language as Music
By Ion Olteteanu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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156-161 Page(s)
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The purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of Witt-
gensteins philosophical views on music. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate
here puts considerable emphasis on the concept of musical expression, and on music
as a means of emphasizing the role of feeling in proper understanding. |
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Wittgenstein, language, musical expression, meaning, philosophy
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The Modes of Religious Education: Christianitys Contemporary Status
By Liliana Trofin, Madalina Tomescu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of the
nature of Christianity as a missionary religion, the practices of the Christian com-
munity, and the substance of Christian ideology. The literature on Christian under-
standing of Jesus death and resurrection, the process of assimilation and accommodation
in Christian learning, the norms for education in a Christian context, and mediation
of religious traditions and practices is relevant to this discussion. |
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Christianity, religious education, faith, ordered learning
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Leszek Nowak and the Idealizational Approach to Science
By Giacomo Borbone © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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125-149 Page(s)
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Theres an essential methodological and theoretical difference between
abstraction and idealization hardly remarked by the main founder of the so-called
Pozna |
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abstraction, D-N Model, Hempel, Idealization, Nowak, Popper
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A Token-Based Semantic Analysis of Mctaggarts Paradox
By Cheng-Chih Tsai © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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In his famous argument for the unreality of time, McTaggart claims
that i) being past, being present, and being future are incompatible properties of an
event, yet ii) every event admits all these three properties. In this paper, I examine
two key concepts involved in the formulation of i) and ii), namely that of "validity"
and that of "contradiction", and for each concept I distinguish a static version and a
dynamic version of it. I then arrive at three different ways of formulating McTaggarts
claims that avoid the notorious McTaggarts Paradox... |
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McTaggarts Paradox, Incompatibility Thesis, All-inclusive Thesis, static contradiction, dynamic contradiction
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How the Metaphysical Need ("Metaphysisches Bedurfnis") Outlasted Reductionism - On a Methodical Controversy between Life Philosophy "Lebensphilosophie") and Life Sciences in 19th Century Germany
By Dirk Solies © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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The paper analyzes how the evolution of the 19th century life sciences
was adopted and reflected by the contemporary philosophy. As the paper shows,
there have been manifold (and nowadays very little known) connections between life
sciences and philosophy. In the spotlight of this very controversial argument stood
the concept of life. Whereas the life sciences (cell theory, materialism debate, and
Darwinism) attempted to grasp this concept in a strictly reductive manner, the German
life-philosophy ("Lebensphilosophie") established an integral and often highly meta-
physical view of man and culture that was in many cases based on the concepts of
19th century life sciences... |
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19th century, life sciences, Nietzsche, Simmel
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Language, Vorstellung, and Meaning as Use
By Horst Ruthrof © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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The paper focuses on the tension between Wittgensteins "meaning as
use" and his ubiquitous use of Vorstellung in the PI. My argument opens with a
rough sketch of a theory of natural language in which Vorstellung, defined as variation of
perception, plays a prominent part. I then address the distinction between intension
and extension in relation to meaning, redefining extension as an essential component
in a Vorstellung oriented theory of language. Wittgensteins treatment of Vorstellung
in the PI is discussed in relation to my challenge of the assumed privacy of mental
images... |
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Wittgenstein, Vorstellung, intension, extension, language, perception
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Constraining the Time when Language Evolved
By Sverker Johansson © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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The precise timing of the emergence of language in human prehistory
cannot be resolved. But the available evidence is sufficient to constrain it to some
degree. This is a review and synthesis of the available evidence, leading to the con-
clusion that the time when speech in some form became important for our ancestors
can be constrained to be not less than 400,000 years ago, thus excluding several
popular theories involving a late transition to speech. |
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emergence of language, human prehistory, speech, ancestors
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Support for Individual Concepts
By Barbara Abbott © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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This paper aims to provide support for the view that individual concepts
are basic to natural language semantics. First, the use of constant individual concepts
allows us to maintain Kripkes view of proper names as nondescriptional rigid
designators in the face of problems created by so-called "empty names." And second,
the distinction between constant and variable individual concepts can function in an
analysis of the specific-nonspecific distinction in indefinite descriptions, parallel to
Donnellans referential-attributive distinction in definite descriptions... |
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individual concept, definite and indefinite description, semantics
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White Philosophy in/of America
By Michael A. Peters © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Volume 10
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This paper argues that Rorty and Cavell define American philosophy
"after" Wittgenstein. Each embraced the historical nature of philosophy, culture and
language implied by Wittgensteins cultural turn and each sought to reimagine the
American tradition in philosophy both by returning to American philosophers before
the analytic fracture and by investigating the Idea of America. In both American
philosophy and the idea of America discussion of race and racism have been notable
by their absence... |
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American philosophy, black consciousness, race, racism, pragmatism
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The Legitimacy of Punishment
By Ion Ristea © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 10
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I am specifically interested in how previous research investigated the
law of punishment execution, the laws function of preserving and respecting the
autonomy of persons, the prosecution and punishment of mass crimes at interna-
tional level, and the legitimacy of punishment. This paper provides implications for
practice and research to further explore the harms of crime and punishment, the utility
of the restorative process, the scope of criminal law, and the offenders capacity for
autonomy. |
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law, punishment execution, crime, restorative process
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Schelers Phenomenology of Values
By Nela Mircica © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 10
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In the present paper, I focus on Schelers concept of the ego, his
ethical personalism, the metaphysical horizons of his phenomenology of the morally
acting person, his concept of personhood, and his phenomenology of the person as a
moral agent. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of Schelers phe-
nomenology of personhood, the foundational phenomena of morals, Schelers procedure
in ethics, his concept of value, and his theory of the person in the state. |
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Scheler, ego, phenomenology, value, personhood, moral agent
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Social Drivers of Online News and the Conditions of Production of User-Authored Content
By George Lazaroiu © 2011. Addleton Academic Publisher
Review of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 10
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This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to
the study of economies of scale in producing Internet-based news, media concen-
tration in the context of the digital age, the development of digital technology and
Internet-based services, the quality of given news content, and the increased avail-
ability of news. The analysis presented in this article contributes to research on media
pluralism and diversity of media content, rapid changes in the media industry, the
multiplicity of news providers, competitive interaction between various media plat-
forms in a converged news eco-system, and the production of high-quality and
pluralistic news content. |
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social driver, online news, digital age
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