Science – logic – philosophy. An old problem resuscitated

Pavel Materna

doi:10.12775/LLP.2012.007

Authors

Pavel Materna Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2012.007

Keywords

concept, conceptual systems, constructions, Transparent Intensional Logic

Abstract

I argue that Hume’s and Carnap’s criticism of philosophy (meta-physic) contains a rational core and that this core can be much more sharply formulated as soon as a procedural theory of concepts is applied. Also, a possible solution to the problem can be suggested in a much more definite manner.

Author Biography

Pavel Materna, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague

Institute of Philosophy

References

Carnap, R., Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie, Suhrkamp, 1966.

Carnap, R., “Überwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache”, Erkenntnis 2 (1932): 219–241.

Carnap, R., Logical Foundations of Probability, The University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Church, A., “A revised formulation of the logic of sense and denotation. Alternative (1)”, Noûs 27 (1993): 141–157.

Coffa, J.A., The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Cresswell, M.J., “Hyperintensional logic”, Studia Logica 34 (1975): 25–38.

Cresswell, M.J., Structured Meanings, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985.

Duží, M. and P. Materna, “Can concepts be defined in terms of sets?”, Logic and Logical Philosophy 19 (2010), 195–242.

Duží, M., B. Jespersen and P. Materna, Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic, Springer Verlag, 2010.

Glock, H.-J., “Concepts: Where Subjectivism Goes Wrong”, Philosophy 84 (no. 1) (2009):5–29.

Horák, A., The Normal Translation Algorithm in Transparent Intensional Logic for Czech, PhD Thesis, Masaryk University Brno, retrievable at url{http://www.fi.muni.cz/ hales/disert/}, 2002.

Materna, P. and J. Petrželka, “Definition and concept. Aristotelian definition vindicated”, Studia Neoaristotelica 5 (no. 1) (2008): 3–37.

Tichý, P., “Smysl a procedura”, Filosofický časopis 16 (1968): 222–232. Translated as ‘Sense and procedure’ in [Tichy, 2004, 77–92].

Tichý, P., “Intensions in terms of Turing machines”, Studia Logica 26 (1969): 7–25. ([Tichy, 2004, 93–109]).

Tichý, P., The Foundations of Frege’s Logic, De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1988.

Tichý, P., Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy, V. Svoboda, B. Jespersen, and C. Cheyne (eds.), Filosofia, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2004.