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An outside observer looking at the contemporary scene in philosophy may very well be excused if his or her first impression is of people talking past each other. Philosophers belonging to the different analytic traditions are easily perceived of as wasting their ingenuity and stringency on small technical problems which have no larger human significance while hermeneutical and deconstructivist thinkers are often thought of as trafficking in vague generalities expressed in a pompous jargon whose purpose is to obscure ideas rather than to clarify them. Or else it might seem that we are witnessing an “end of philosophy” which in practice seems to mean a deterioration of philosophy into clever dialogue for clever dialogue’s sake.
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A.O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being, Harvard University Press, 1936.
Cf. here my presidential address, “Gaps in the Great Chain of Being”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 49 (1975–76), pp. 2238.
Cf. here my paper, “Ludwig’s Apple Tree”, in Friedrich Stadtler, editor, Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1993, pp. 2746.
Cf. R.C. Collingwood, Essay on Metaphysics,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939, especially chapter 5.
See here e.g., Jaakko Hintikka “On the Development of Model-theoretical Viewpoint in Logical Theory”, Synthese,vol. 77 (1988), pp. 1–36; Merrill B. Hintikka and Jaakko Hintikka, Investigating Wittgenstein,Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, chapter 1.
See Jean van Heijenoort, “Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language”, Synthese, vol. 17 (1967), pp. 324–330.
The long-studied discussion of the so-called “paradox of analysis” provides glimpses of this kind of reason for the ineffability thesis. Wittgenstein acknowledges the sometime influence of this line of thought on him (and on Russell) in Philosophical Investigations (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1953) I, sec. 46.
Hilary Putnam, “The Meaning of `Meaning’, in Mind, Language and Reality, Philosophical Papers,vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 215–571, especially p. 236.
See Martin Kusch, Language as Calculus vs. Language as the Universal Medium: A Study of Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1989.
See here Dagfinn Fellesdal, “Husserl and Heidegger on the Role of Actions in the Constitution of the World”, in Esa Saarinen et al., editors, Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka,D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1979, pp. 365–376, especially p. 369.
Ernst Tugendhat, Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Heidegger,de Gruyter, Berlin, 1967.
Alfred Tarski, “Der Wahrheitsbegriff in formalisierten Sprachen”, Studia Philosophic a, vol. 1 (1935), pp. 261–405.
See here e.g., Michael Friedman, “Logical Truth and Analyticity in Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language’’, in W. Aspray and P. Kitcher (editors), History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science XI), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988, pp. 82–94; and cf. Jaakko Hintikka, ”Carnap’s Work in the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in a Historical Perspective“, Synthese, vol. 93 (1992), pp. 167–189.
See here Jaakko Hintikka, “What is Elementary Logic?”, in K. Gavroglu et al., editors, Physics, Philosophy and the Scientific Community,Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995, pp. 301–326. Also The Principles of Mathematics Revisited,Cambridge U.P., 1996, chapters 3–4.
See here Jaakko Hintikka, Defining Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth,Reports from the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 1991; also The Principles of Mathematics Revisited,op. cit., ch. 6.
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination,translated by Barbara Johnson, University of Chicago Press, 1981.
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Hintikka, J. (1997). Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth. In: Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator. Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8601-6_1
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