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Language, Mind, and Art

Essays in Appreciation and Analysis, in Honor of Paul Ziff

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Dale Jamieson

    1. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 240)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Paul Ziff, 1958–1960: A Reminiscence

    • Paul Benacerraf
    Pages 1-7

  3. Understanding Misunderstanding

    • Zeno Vendler
    Pages 9-21

  4. Rules and Regularities Revisited

    • Jay F. Rosenberg
    Pages 23-37

  5. Proper Names: Possibility and Culture

    • Thomas E. Patton
    Pages 39-53

  6. Numbers as Structures and as Positions in Structures

    • Michael D. Resnik
    Pages 55-67

  7. The Unnaturalness of Grue

    • Rita Nolan
    Pages 69-81

  8. Microscopes and Corpuscles

    • Peter Alexander
    Pages 83-99

  9. Why Machines Can Neither Think nor Feel

    • Douglas C. Long
    Pages 101-119

  10. Ziff on Shooting an Elephant

    • Dale Jamieson
    Pages 121-129

  11. Jazz and the African-American Experience: The Expressiveness of African-American Music

    • Bill E. Lawson
    Pages 131-142

  12. Anything Contemplated

    • Douglas Dempster
    Pages 143-157

  13. Aesthetics and Baseball

    • Joseph S. Ullian
    Pages 159-168

  14. Rhyme without Reason

    • Douglas F. Stalker
    Pages 169-185

  15. Afterword: Selections from A Tripartite Trismus

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 187-197

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 199-220
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About this book

This book is a collection of essays in honor of Paul Ziff written by his col­ leagues, students, and friends. Many of the authors address topics that Ziff has discussed in his writings: understanding, rules and regularities, proper names, the feelings of machines, expression, and aesthetic experience. Paul Ziff began his professional career as an artist, went on to study painting with J. M. Hanson at Cornell, and then studied for the Ph. D. in philosophy, also at Cornell, with Max Black. Over the next three decades he produced a series of remarkable papers in philosophy of art, culminating in 1984 with the publica­ tion of Antiaesthetics: An Appreciation of the Cow with the Subtile Nose. In 1960 he published Semantic Analysis, his masterwork in philosophy of lan­ guage. Throughout his career he made important contributions to philosophy of mind in such papers as "The Simplicity of Other Minds" (1965) and "About Behaviourism" (1958). In addition to his work in these areas, his lec­ tures at Harvard on philosophy of religion are an underground classic; and throughout his career he has continued to make art and to search for the meaning of life in the properties of prime numbers. Although his interests are wide and deep, questions about language, art, and mind have dominated his philosophical work, and it is problems in these areas that provide the topics of most of the essays in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Dale Jamieson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language, Mind, and Art

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Appreciation and Analysis, in Honor of Paul Ziff

  • Editors: Dale Jamieson

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8313-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2810-0Published: 31 October 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4391-7Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8313-8Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

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