The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics

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Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press (2019)
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Is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Kant to Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question. This volume brings together nine distinguished thinkers on the subject, including James Conant, author of the seminal paper "The Search for Logically Alien Thought."

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BC71.L64 2020

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9780674242821   0674335902   0674242823   9780674335905

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Introduction: Basic Necessities

The Search for Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus

What Descartes Ought to Have Thought about Modality

Kant on Logic and the Laws of the Understanding

Cartesian Skepticism, Kantian Skepticism, and Two Conceptions of Self-Consciousness

Logical Aliens and the “Ground” of Logical Necessity

Varieties of Alien Thought

Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess: The Breakdown of an Analogy and Its Consequences

Where Words Fail

Alien Meaning and Alienated Meaning

Introduction: On How History of Philosophy Can Be Illuminating

Section I: Who Is the Author of These Afterthoughts and Responses?

Section II: A History of Philosophy That Challenges Contemporary Preconceptions

Section III: Some Aspects of Conant’s Version of the History

Section IV: Theological Sources of Modern Conceptions of Logic

Section V: Leibnizian versus Kantian Conceptions of Logic

Section VI: A Resolute Reading of Descartes

Section VII: Reply to Moore: Descartes on the Relation of the Possible to the Actual

Section VIII: Reply to Boyle: Kant on the Relation of a Rational Capacity to Its Acts

Section IX: Reply to Hamawaki: On the Relation of Cartesian to Kantian Skepticism and the Relation of Consciousness to Self-Consciousness

Section X: Reply to Hamawaki and Stroud on Transcendental Arguments, Idealism, and the Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy

Section XI: Reply to Stroud on Kant and Frege: On the Relation of Thought to Judgment

Section XII: Reply to Sullivan: Frege on the Priority of Logic to Everything

Section XIII: Reply to Gustafsson: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Sign to Symbol

Section XIV: Reply to Travis: Wittgenstein on the Non-Relation of Thinking to Being

Section XV: Reply to Benoist: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Language to Life

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Introduction: Basic Necessities (or: The Shape of Thought)

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