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Conventionalism
About: Conventionalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 509 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8255 citations.
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1 Jan 1975
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the concept of a person, the meaning of meaning, and the nature of mental states in the mind of a human being and the mental life of some machines.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Language and philosophy 2. The analytic and synthetic 3. Do true assertions correspond to reality? 4. Some issues in the theory of grammar 5. The 'innateness hypothesis' and explanatory models in linguistics 6. How not to talk about meaning 7. Review of The concept of a person 8. Is semantics possible? 9. The refutation of conventionalism 10. Reply to Gerald Massey 11. Explanation and reference 12. The meaning of 'meaning' 13. Language and reality 14. Philosophy and our mental life 15. Dreaming and 'depth grammar' 16. Brains and behaviour 17. Other minds 18. Minds and machines 19. Robots: machines or artificially created life? 20. The mental life of some machines 21. The nature of mental states 22. Logical positivism and the philosophy of mind Bibliography Index.
2,889 citations
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1 Jan 1999TL;DR: Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick and Carnap as discussed by the authors, and Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I. Geometry, Relativity, and Convention: 1. Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers Postscript: general relativity and General Theory of Knowledge 2. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory 3. Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick and Carnap 4. Poincare's conventionalism and the logical positivists Part II. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt: 5. Carnap's Aufbau reconsidered 6. Epistemology in the Aufbau Postscript: Carnap and the Neo-Kantians Part III. Logico-Mathematical Truth: 7. Analytic truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language 8. Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus 9. Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematics Bibliography Index.
660 citations
TL;DR: The Semantic Tradition: 1. Kant, analysis, and pure intuition 2. Bolzano and the birth of semantics 3. Geometry, pure intuition and the a priori 4. Frege's semantics as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Part I. The Semantic Tradition: 1. Kant, analysis, and pure intuition 2. Bolzano and the birth of semantics 3. Geometry, pure intuition and the a priori 4. Frege's semantics and the a priori in arithmetic 5. Meaning and ontology 6. On denoting 7. Logic in transition 8. A logico-philosophical treatise Part II Vienna, 1925-1935: 9. Schlick before Vienna 10. Philosophers on relativity 1. Carnap before Vienna 12. Scientific idealism and semantic idealism 13. Return of Ludwig Wittgenstein 14. A priori knowledge and the constitution of meaning 15. The road to syntax 16. Syntax and truth 17. Semantic conventionalism and the factuality of meaning 18. The problem of induction: theories 19. The problems of experience: protocols Notes References Index.
536 citations
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1 Jan 1975
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an examination of Grunbaum's philosophy of geometry and three-valued logic, which they call the logic of quantum mechanics, and the degree of confirmation and inductive logic.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Truth and necessity in mathematics 2. The thesis that mathematics is logic 3. Mathematics without foundations 4. What is mathematical truth? 5. Philosophy of physics 6. An examination of Grunbaum's philosophy of geometry 7. A philosopher looks at quantum mechanics 8. Discussion: comments on comments on comments: a reply to Margenau and Wigner 9. Three-valued logic 10. The logic of quantum mechanics 11. Time and physical geometry 12. Memo on 'conventionalism' 13. What theories are not 14. Craig's theorem 15. It ain't necessarily so 16. The 'corroboration' of theories 17. 'Degree of confirmation' and inductive logic 18. Probability and confirmation 19. On properties 20. Philosophy of logic Bibliography Index.
519 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1975
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a view of science as a social theory based on positivism and realist philosophy of science, with a focus on the explantion and understanding of social action.
Abstract: Part one Conceptions of science 1. Positivist philosophy of science 2. Realist philosophy of science 3. Forms of conventionalism Part two Conceptions of science as social theory 4. Sociology and positivism 5. Marx and realism 6. Structure and structuralism Part 3 Meaning and ideology 7. The explantion and understanding of social action 8. Reification and realism 9. Values theory and reality
343 citations
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