Why does language matter to philosophy pdf

Last edited by ImportBot. October 4, History. An edition of Why does language matter to philosophy? This edition was published in by Cambridge University Press in Cambridge ,. New York. Written in English — pages.

Libraries near you: WorldCat. Publisher unknown. First published in Subjects Philosophy , Languages , Language and languages , Langage et langues , Philosophie , Taalfilosofie , Semantics philosophy. Classifications Library of Congress P H Dewey Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references p.

H, B The Physical Object Pagination p. But Hacking here contradicts himself: if scientia and episteme have to do with knowledge demonstrated from first principles, then they have to do with knowledge. Hacking attributes the change in the nature of knowledge to evolution and holds that "knowledge itself must be the primary force that drives the transformation from the heyday of ideas to the heyday of sentences" p.

For all its strangeness, Hacking's Philosophical Thesis is not unprecedented. Robert Holkot, O. For example, Holkot held that, although God is omniscient, God is able to know more than He knows; He would have known more than He knows if more true sentences had been written; and He would have known less if fewer had been.

Further, "God is omniscient" is consistent with "God knows nothing," since it is possible that no sentences exist. But Hacking goes further than Holkot; he thinks that one day we will "dispense with the fiction of a knowing subject," and "discourse itself To prepare the reader for his astounding Philosophical Thesis, Hacking first develops his Historical Thesis.

According to the Historical Thesis, there have been three major philosophical epochs since the seventeenth century. They are, to use Hacking's titles: A. The Heyday of Ideas: the period in which private--that is, mental--language mattered to philosophy and during which there was no theory of meaning; B. The Heyday of Meanings: the period in which public languages mattered and there was a theory of meaning; and C. The Heyday of Sentences: the period in which public languages mattered and there is again no theory of meaning.

There is a neatness to this scheme. George Campus. Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go.

The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues. Edit this record. Mark as duplicate. Find it on Scholar. Request removal from index. Revision history. Download options PhilArchive copy.

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