The Ethical Subject and Willing Subject in the Tractatus: an Alternative to the Transcendental Reading

Philosophia - The Transcendental Reading of the Tractatus argues that Wittgenstein endorses, under the notion of ‘metaphysical subject’, the existence of a willing subject as a...     

Kant's Conceptualism: a New Reading of the Transcendental Deduction

I defend a novel interpretation of Kant's conceptualism regarding the contents of our perceptual experiences. Conceptualist interpreters agree that Kant's Deduction aims to prove that intuitions require the categories for their spatiality and temporality. But conceptualists disagree as to which features of space and time make intuitions require the categories. Interpreters have cited the singularity, unity, infinity, and homogeneity of space and time. But this is incompatible with Kant's Aesthetic, which aims to prove that these same features qualify space and time as intuitions, not concepts. On my interpretation, the feature is objectivity. Space and time are objective, in that they ground our judgments in geometry and mechanics.     

马克思对经济主体的伦理分析

经济主体的伦理分析是马克思经济伦理思想的主要内容之一。马克思从人类主体活动的社会形式角度,把人类社会分成三个形态。对应于三种形态,经济主体的表现形式为原始丰富的人、异化的人、全面发展的人,在马克思看来,一定社会形态下现实的不同的人表现出不同的伦理特性。     

The Tractatus and the Riddles of Philosophy*

The notion of the riddle plays a pivotal role in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. By examining the comparisons he draws between philosophical problems and riddles, this paper offers a reassessment of the aims and methods of the book. Solving an ordinary riddle does not consist in learning a new fact; what it requires is that we transform the way we use words. Similarly, Wittgenstein proposes to transform the way philosophers understand the nature of their problems. But since he holds that these problems are ultimately unsolvable, rather than attempting to solve the riddles of philosophy, he aims to dissolve them.     

Part III: The Hidden Dialogue in Spinoza's Tractatus

The intellectual relations that render Spinoza's groundbreaking Theological-political Treatise intelligible are explored by a reading of contemporary works by Christian authors, beginning with Ludwig Meyer's advocacy of a philosophical hermeneutic and continuingwith three critical responses to it, the last being Spinoza's Treatise itself. Spinoza's engagement in a Christian debateputs his exploitation of Christian terms and categories in sharperfocus. Spinoza's scathing critique of Maimonides is in part a critiqueof Meyer, and Spinoza's new historical and critical approach to theBible is projected as much in opposition to a philosophical hermeneuticas to a theological one.     

意义的体系——维特根斯坦的《逻辑哲学论》与形式语义学

人们把一般形式语义学的起源追溯到弗雷格、塔尔斯基、蒙塔古和戴维森等哲学家。但是人们忽略了维特根斯坦的《逻辑哲学论》。维特根斯坦在这本著作中提出了一种特定的关于语言、意义和世界的看法,它牵涉到普遍论、内涵指称论和组合原则等重要的哲学假定,而这样的哲学假定也是形式语义学先驱的著作中所假定的。因此,维特根斯坦的意义理论对于形式语义学的基本原则和哲学假定的确立是至关重要的。斯托克霍夫教授的研究不是历史性的,而是系统地比较了维特根斯坦的意义理论和形式语义学的先驱的著作。     

转折与革命——逻辑经验主义的数学哲学:从《逻辑哲学论》到《逻辑句法》

与经验主义或实证主义之前的形式相比,逻辑和数学哲学是最具逻辑经验主义特征的。逻辑经验主义不仅因此得名,而且也为科学经验主义的成功点燃了希望。然而,经验主义者的心理主义与实证主义者的逻辑主义对数学本质的探讨始终不能达成共识。基于这种背景,维特根斯坦《逻辑哲学论》的发表对于维也纳小组的影响深远、意义重大。逻辑经验主义在20世纪20年代的数学哲学都是植根于《逻辑哲学论》的。本文在第一部分阐释了它何以成为该学派在"哲学上的转折点"。而维也纳学派从一开始就试图对《逻辑哲学论》进行革新,使之服务于其本身的纲领。本文在第二部分着重探讨了他们关于这些问题所展开的激烈讨论。这种状况一直持续到1931年卡尔纳普提出了"句法"纲领,该纲领从根本上超越了逻辑经验主义的原有框架。但由于当时欧洲逻辑经验主义者受到纳粹的迫害而四分五散,"句法"观点并未受到广泛关注。本文在第三、第四部分具体分析了逻辑经验主义如何由《逻辑哲学论》向"句法"思想转变的过程。     

The Unity of Language and Logic in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

The purpose of this paper is to offer an interpretation of the Tractatus’ proof of the unity of logic and language. The kernel of the proof is the thesis that the sole logical constant is the general propositional form. I argue that the Grundgedanke, the existence of the sole fundamental operation N and the analyticity thesis, together with the fact that the operation NN can always be seen as having no specific formal difference between its result and its base, imply that NN is intrinsic to every elementary proposition. I also argue that the picture theory of proposition is an account of the generation of propositions via naming, and that its crucial idea is that naming is the instantiation of the form of a name, which consists in arbitrarily picking out an object as the meaning of the name from those objects sorted out by the form of the name. It follows that the existential quantifier, that is, NN, is intrinsic to naming (and therefore to every elementary proposition). It is then proven that the sole logical constant is the general propositional form. This, together with the truth‐functionality of logical necessity, implies that logic and language are unified via a general rule – logical syntax.