Ancient Philosophy of Language

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Castagnoli ◽  
Ermelinda Valentina Di Lascio
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Ancient Philosophy

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
International Language ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Basic English ◽  
And Linguistics

This book is a historical study of influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, explored from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Although no ‘Great Man’ in his own right, Ogden had a personal connection, reflected in his work, to several of the most significant figures of the age. The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), is examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English. A richly interlaced network of connections is revealed between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics, all inevitably shaped by the contemporary cultural and political environment. In particular, significant interaction is shown between Ogden’s ideas, the varying versions of ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgensten (1889–1951), Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) ‘significs’, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) of the Vienna Circle. Amid these interactions emerges a previously little known mutual exchange between the academic philosophy and linguistics of the period and the practically oriented efforts of the international language movement.

La filosofía en la sociedad de la ciencia y la interpretación. Entrevista a Alejandro Vigo

Open Insight ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
David González Ginoccio ◽  
Mauricio Lecón Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt

Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, 1958) es Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1988) y Doctor por la de Heidelberg (1994) con una tesis sobre la teoría de la acción aristotélica, escrita bajo la supervisión del Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieland (cfr. Vigo, 1996). Ha impartido cursos de griego clásico, filosofía antigua, Kant y neokantismo, fenomenología y hermenéutica, teoría de la acción y ética. Ha estudiado y traducido a Platón y Aristóteles. Sobre ellos y autores como Heidegger, Suárez, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl y Gadamer ha publicado alrededor de cien artículos, voces en diccionarios, reseñas especializadas, notas en prensa, etc. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del departamento de filosofía de la Universidad de Navarra. Ha sido coeditor de Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy y es Miembro Titular del Institut International de Philosophie, École Normal Supérieur – CNRS; participa en los consejos editoriales de revistas especializadas como Escritos de Filosofía, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía,$QXDULR)LORVyÀ- co, Méthodus, Tópicos y Open Insight. En el pasado simposio de la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Bamberg, 24-27.III.2011) recibió el Premio de Investigación Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, que reconoce anualmente la trayectoria científica de académicos de todas las áreas. El prof. Vigo realiza actualmente una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Halle para estudiar la teoría de la acción de Kant.

The Enneads of Plotinus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kalligas
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Christian Thought

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

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