Ebook: Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda

The late Hector-Neri Casta?eda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of No?s, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributions, including guise theory, the theory on indicators and quasi-indicators, and the proposition/practition theory. This volume collects 15 papers - for the most part previously unpublished - in ontology, philosophy of language, cognitive science and related areas by ex-students of Professor Casta?eda, most of whom are now well-known researchers or even distinguished scholars. The authors share the conviction that Casta?eda's work must continue to be explored and that his philosophical methodology must continue to be applied in an effort to further illuminate all the issues that he so deeply investigated. The topics covered by the contributions include intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. An introduction by the editors relates all these themes to Casta?eda's philosophical interests and methodology.

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The late Hector-Neri Casta?eda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of No?s, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributions, including guise theory, the theory on indicators and quasi-indicators, and the proposition/practition theory. This volume collects 15 papers - for the most part previously unpublished - in ontology, philosophy of language, cognitive science and related areas by ex-students of Professor Casta?eda, most of whom are now well-known researchers or even distinguished scholars. The authors share the conviction that Casta?eda's work must continue to be explored and that his philosophical methodology must continue to be applied in an effort to further illuminate all the issues that he so deeply investigated. The topics covered by the contributions include intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. An introduction by the editors relates all these themes to Casta?eda's philosophical interests and methodology.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Grammar of Belief....Pages 3-24
Actualism and Quantification....Pages 25-37
Guise Theory, Property Theory, and Casta?eda’s Philosophical Methodology....Pages 39-59
Russell’s Intensional Logic of Propositions: A Resurrection of Logicism?....Pages 61-93
In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of Experience....Pages 95-106
Existentialist Themes....Pages 107-134
On the Metaphysical Distinction between Processes and Events....Pages 135-151
Possible Worlds without Possibilia....Pages 153-167
A Role for Conceptual Role Semantics....Pages 169-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
On Depicting Indexical Reference....Pages 183-215
She*: Pragmatically Imparted or Semantically Encoded?....Pages 217-234
Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports....Pages 235-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Relations in Plato’s Phaedo ....Pages 297-311
Leibniz’s Spark of Kant’s Great Light: An Application of Casta?eda’s Darwinian Approach to the History of Philosophy....Pages 313-320
Peirce’s Evolutionary Idea of Evolution....Pages 321-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Philosophical Bibliography of Hector-Neri Casta?eda (1991-1999)....Pages 333-336
Report on the Casta?eda Nachlass ....Pages 337-344
Prolegomena to a Study of Hector-Neri Casta?eda’s Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and Personal Reflections....Pages 345-367
Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri Casta?eda....Pages 369-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-388

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The late Hector-Neri Casta?eda, the Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, and founding editor of No?s, has deeply influenced current analytic pjilosophy with diverse contributions, including guise theory, the theory on indicators and quasi-indicators, and the proposition/practition theory. This volume collects 15 papers - for the most part previously unpublished - in ontology, philosophy of language, cognitive science and related areas by ex-students of Professor Casta?eda, most of whom are now well-known researchers or even distinguished scholars. The authors share the conviction that Casta?eda's work must continue to be explored and that his philosophical methodology must continue to be applied in an effort to further illuminate all the issues that he so deeply investigated. The topics covered by the contributions include intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. An introduction by the editors relates all these themes to Casta?eda's philosophical interests and methodology.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Grammar of Belief....Pages 3-24
Actualism and Quantification....Pages 25-37
Guise Theory, Property Theory, and Casta?eda’s Philosophical Methodology....Pages 39-59
Russell’s Intensional Logic of Propositions: A Resurrection of Logicism?....Pages 61-93
In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of Experience....Pages 95-106
Existentialist Themes....Pages 107-134
On the Metaphysical Distinction between Processes and Events....Pages 135-151
Possible Worlds without Possibilia....Pages 153-167
A Role for Conceptual Role Semantics....Pages 169-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
On Depicting Indexical Reference....Pages 183-215
She*: Pragmatically Imparted or Semantically Encoded?....Pages 217-234
Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports....Pages 235-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Relations in Plato’s Phaedo ....Pages 297-311
Leibniz’s Spark of Kant’s Great Light: An Application of Casta?eda’s Darwinian Approach to the History of Philosophy....Pages 313-320
Peirce’s Evolutionary Idea of Evolution....Pages 321-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Philosophical Bibliography of Hector-Neri Casta?eda (1991-1999)....Pages 333-336
Report on the Casta?eda Nachlass ....Pages 337-344
Prolegomena to a Study of Hector-Neri Casta?eda’s Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and Personal Reflections....Pages 345-367
Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri Casta?eda....Pages 369-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-388
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