The Autonomy of Reference
Title | The Autonomy of Reference PDF eBook |
Author | Zoltán Vecsey |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2024-09-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 166696963X |
In The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals, Zoltán Vecsey defends a moderate autonomy thesis concerning the explanatory status of nominal reference. The autonomy thesis is based on the observation that the relational term of reference exhibits a specific resistance to systematizing attempts. The resistance can be observed on two complementary fronts. On the one hand, reference cannot be introduced into the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics in a de novo manner because every reasonable introductory technique must be built on such expressions that are already functioning in a relational mode. On the other hand, and for similar reasons, the term cannot simply be removed from the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics because every reasonable technique of removal must be built on expressions that are still functioning in a relational mode. Although reference is an autonomous aspect of meaning, in that it shows resistance to these attempts of systematisation, it should not be banished from linguistic theory as an unscientific phenomenon. Vecsey argues that this explanatory technique of reverse engineering, which has already been effectively used in the research practices of logic and mathematics, brings theoretical legitimacy to the term of reference.
Autonomy A Clear and Concise Reference
Title | Autonomy A Clear and Concise Reference PDF eBook |
Author | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780655389408 |
Autonomy A Clear and Concise Reference.
Autonomy, Consent and the Law
Title | Autonomy, Consent and the Law PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila A.M. McLean |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2009-09-10 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1135219052 |
The notion that consent based on the concept of autonomy, underpins a good or beneficent medical intervention is deeply rooted in the jurisprudence of most countries throughout the world. Autonomy, Consent and the Law examines these notions in the UK, Australia and the US, and critiques the way in which autonomy and consent are treated in bioethics and law.
Relational Autonomy
Title | Relational Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Catriona Mackenzie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2000-01-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0195352602 |
This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard accounts, between autonomy and other aspects of the agent, including self-conception, self-worth, memory, and the imagination.
Autonomy, Reference and Post-modern Art
Title | Autonomy, Reference and Post-modern Art PDF eBook |
Author | H. Gene Blocker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Kant on Moral Autonomy
Title | Kant on Moral Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Sensen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107004861 |
This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.
The Autonomy of Pleasure
Title | The Autonomy of Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Steintrager |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2016-02-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231540876 |
What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous—and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.