scholarly journals Stanislav Lem on the philosophy of language: recovery from fragments of phrases

2022 ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
P. N. Baryshnikov
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methods ◽  
Language Recovery ◽  
Linguistic Sign

This article examines some of S. Lem’s statements about his philosophical and worldview positions regarding the mysterious nature of language and the linguistic sign, the connection between language, mind and reality. The main goal of the paper is to understand what texts on the philosophy of language the Polish thinker read and what attitude he has formed towards them. Lem is the follower of an analytical intellectual culture that focuses on the naturalistic worldview and the consequences of the “linguistic turn” in Western philosophy. For Lem, language is not only an interesting philosophical object, but also a complex precise instrument of his own creative thinking. In this regard, the philosophy of language for a writer cannot be based only on logical-linguistic atomistic methodology. Lem seeks (and finds) in his contemporary interdisciplinary methods ways to combine realistic and anti-realist positions. Many concepts, such as “the effect of semantic transparency”, “polymorphic language model”, “variation model” are quite correlated with modern theories of language and require additional philosophical comments.

Interpretation of Nonsense as a Method of Children Imagination Development (as exemplified in Carroll L. «Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
Larisa V. Kalashnikova
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
Powerful Incentive ◽  
Algorithmic Thinking

The article enlightens the probem of nonsense and its role in the development of creative thinking and fantasy, and the way how the interpretation of nonsense affects children imagination. The function of imagination inherent to a person, and especially to a child, has a powerful potential – to create artificially new metaphorical models, absurd and most incredible situations based on self-amazement. Children are able to measure the properties of unfamiliar objects with the properties of known things. It is not difficult for small researchers to replace incomprehensible meanings with familiar ones; to think over situations, to make analogies, to transfer signs and properties of one object to another. The problem of nonsense research is interesting and relevant. The element of the game is an integral component of nonsense. In the process of playing, children cognize the world, learn to interact with the world, imitating the adults behavior. Imagination and fantasy help the child to invent his own rules of the game, to choose language elements that best suit his ideas. The child uses the learned productive models of the language system to create their own models and their own language, attracting language signs: words, morphs, sentences. Children’s dictionary stimulates word formation and language nomination processes. Nonsense-words are the result of children’s dictionary, speech errors and occazional formations, presented in the form of contamination, phonetic transformations, lexical substitution, implemented on certain models. The first two models are phonetic imitation and hybrid speech, based on the natural language model. The third model of designing nonsense is represented by words that have no meaning at all and can be attributed to words-portmonaie. Due to the flexibility of interframe relationships and the lack of algorithmic thinking, children can not only capture the implicit similarity of objects and phenomena, but also create it through their imagination. Interpretation of nonsense is an effective method of developing imagination in children, because metaphors, nonsense as a means of creating new meanings, modeling new content from fragments of one’s own experience, are a powerful incentive for creative thinking.

Metaphilosophical metamorphoses of analytic philosophy of language

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Szubka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Current State ◽  
First Philosophy ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract The paper begins with an account of the emergence of analytic philosophy of language in the twentieth century in the context of the development of logic and the linguistic turn. Subsequently, it describes two examples of analytic philosophy of language in its heyday when the discipline was conceived as first philosophy. Finally, it provides, by way of conclusion, a succinct outline of the current state of philosophy of language, marked by modesty and fragmentation. It is claimed that even if one retains optimism about the prospects of philosophy of language in the first century of the new millennium, it would be unreasonable to disagree with the opinion that the present-day philosophy of language is a highly specialized and diversified discipline and no longer so central for philosophical enterprise as it used to be.

scholarly journals Husserl's Logical Investigations: The Phenomenological Revolution

Elements ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Yiannopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Traditional Account ◽  
Logical Investigations

The view that language is a vehicle for the communication of (immaterial) "concepts," in opposition with the (physical) "words" that carry them, is the foundation of Western philosophy of language, and perhaps the foundation of Western philosophy in general. As Edmund Husserl and Jacques Derrida confront this relationship between ideality and reality in language, the old order promulgating this binary comes into question. The following essay explores this challenge to the traditional account of language as well as its wider implications for ontology and subjectivity.

scholarly journals The creative component of fostering personal culture among prospective teachers by means of foreign-language education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Olga Vasilevna Volodina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Educational Product ◽  
The Subject

In the paper special attention is paid to creativity and creative thinking development in the research of fostering personal culture among undergraduate pedagogical students by means of foreign-language education. Creativity is considered one of the essential principles of the civilization progress; creativization of education is one of the main aspects of the intellectualization of education that is associated with revealing personal creative traits and developing the capability to implement creative acts in the educational environment, social and professional spheres. The purpose of the paper is to analyze pedagogical conditions for developing emotional, creative and innovative potential of prospective teachers in various productive intellectual and creative activities using foreign language educational material. The methodological basis for identifying conditions for the development of creative thinking, cognitive, speech-thinking, communicative, regulatory, reflexive skills and the subject position of students for the development of personal intellectual culture of prospective teachers are the ontological, personal, environmental, activity approaches. The efficiency of creative tasks, creative technologies and methods of studying a foreign language is analyzed; these activities are used to train students to get knowledge and skills themselves in order to solve certain problems, to enrich the experience of practical application, to expose independence in creative activity and critical thinking, to foster the traits of a creative personality, to make a personally significant educational product of interaction and collective creativity, self-expression and self-realization of prospective teachers in the process of studying a foreign language at university.

Idealism

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
George Berkeley ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Neutral Monism ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
To Receive

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are the versions developed by George Berkeley and Immanuel Kant. Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. The contemporary debate has focused almost exclusively on physicalism and dualism, though the alternative views of panpsychism and neutral monism are beginning to receive more attention. This book remedies the situation by bringing together seventeen new essays by leading philosophers on idealism. They explain, attack, or defend a variety of forms of idealism—not only Berkeleyan and Kantian versions, but also Buddhist and Jewish versions, and others besides. The essays are all contributions to metaphysics, but variously focus on philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and other areas of philosophy.

scholarly journals Tradições epistemológicas nos estudos de organização dos saberes: uma leitura histórico-epistêmica a partir da filosofia da linguagem | Epistemological traditions in studies of knowledge organization: a historical-epistemic reading based on the philosophy

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Silva Saldanha
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Epistemological Tradition ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Collective Construction

Resumo Analisa o campo da organização dos saberes a partir da filosofia da linguagem. Problematiza a virada lingüística e sua importância no campo informacional. Critica a terminologia adotada para classificar o campo que atua com preservação, representação e transmissão de conceitos e artefatos que possibilitam a construção coletiva do conhecimento. Categoriza a tradição representacionista e a tradição pragmática. Descreve as tradições epistemológicas do campo informacional fundadas em uma filosofia da linguagem através das manifestações institucionais que atravessaram o século XX.Palavras-chave epistemologia da ciência da informação; filosofia da linguagem; tradição epistemológica; tradição pragmática; tradição representacionistaAbstract The article examines the field of organization of knowledge building on the philosophy of language. Questions the linguistic turn and its importance in the informational field. Criticizes the terminology used to classify the field that works with preservation, representation and transmission of concepts and artifacts that allow the collective construction of knowledge. Categorizes the representationalist tradition and the pragmatic tradition. Describes the epistemological traditions of the informational field based on a philosophy of language in institutional manifestations across throughout the twentieth century.Keywords epistemology of information science; philosophy of language; epistemological tradition; pragmatic tradition; representationalist tradition 

“Language” and “discourse”: Two perspectives on linguistic philosophy

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (224) ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Yongxiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Direct Collision ◽  
Linguistic Philosophy

AbstractWith the establishment of modern linguistics and the linguistic turn of western philosophy, various linguistic theories have been advanced and have given different interpretations to language and discourse. Different schools of thought have witnessed a direct collision of ideas and a deep academic dialogue between the theory of translinguistics advanced by the great master of dialogism, Bakhtin, and the outlook on language of the father of modern linguistics, Saussure.

Cutting Philosophy of Language Down to Size

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Biology ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Anglo American

When asked to contribute to this lecture series, my first thought was to talk about philosophy of biology, a new and increasingly influential field in philosophy, surely destined to have great impact in the coming years. But when a preliminary schedule for the series was circulated, I noticed that no one was speaking on language. Given the hegemony of philosophy of language at mid-century, after ‘the linguistic turn’, this seemed to require comment. How did philosophy of language achieve such status at mid-century, and why is it losing it now? Has the Anglo-American tradition really begun to put the philosophy of language in better perspective? I hope so. Indeed, I will end with suggestions for how to keep it more securely in its proper place.

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