Cogitations : a study of the cogito in relation to the philosophy of logic and language and a study of them in relation to the cogito / Jerrold J. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Jerrold J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Language and logic.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Descartes's Cogito ergo sum is one of the best-known of all philosophical formulations, but many philosophers have found it problematic. Katz proposes that the ""Cogito"" should be understood as an example of ""analytical entailment"".

Contents:

Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Cartesian Scholar's Dilemma; III. The Source of the Obscurity; IV. Logical Form, Universality, Linguisticism, and Locke; V. How the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity was Lost; VI. Regaining the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity; VII. The Analytic Entailment of Existential Sentences; VIII. The Cogito as an Analytic Entailment; IX. Cartesian Scholarship Revisited; X. The Nature of Analysis; XI. The Cogito and Indubitability; XII. On the Existence of a Thinker; XIII. A Brief Revisionist History of Analyticity; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G

HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. [186]-198 and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-44054-6

0-19-536365-5

1-4237-6378-5

OCLC:

191924787